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Food Composition 



and 



Human Ills 

Mental and Physiological 



Facts and Figures for Family Use 



By Charles McCormick, President 
McCormiclc Medical College 

Author of "A System of Mature Medicine," "Neurology 

and Metaphysics," "Optical Truths," "A Synopsis 

of Neurology," "Diet Tables," and Editor 

of "Mature Medicine" for ten years 



Published by 
McCORMICK MEDICAL COLLEGE 

Founded 1893. Chartered in Illinois. 

CHICAGO 

1919 



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Copyright, 1919 

by 

McCormick Medical College 

Chicago, 111. 



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INTRODUCTION 

Truth is that which can be demonstrated, theoretically 
and practically, chemically or mechanically, physically or 
physiologically. 

So long as any proposition is merely speculative, as are 
religion and old-school medicine, it is a waste of time to 
argue, and it is a crime to accept them on the brazenness 
of their assertions. 

The greatest of all calamities to the human race was the 
promulgation and acceptance of a substitution of artificial 
for natural standards in education and practice, because 
it retarded progress and outraged intelligence. 

Religions have caused more insanity and crime than all 
other factors combined. Founded on superstition and 
credulity, armed with the bribe of a heaven and the threat 
of hell, they trafficked in forgiveness of "sins." The in- 
consistency and unnaturalness of putting premiums on 
crime is so apparent, to all who are not afraid to think, 
that it is pitiful. Not only history, but daily events, physi- 
cal and physiological, afford ample proofs of the facts 
stated. 

Out of religious dogmas came the medical ones, which 
are as dangerous to physiological conditions as the others 
are to mental ones. From prayers to offering sacrifices; 
from "miracles" to murder of those who refused to believe 
in them was an easy step in religion. From herbs and 
bleeding to mercury and vaccination is the analog in 
medicine. Is it anything remarkable that such baneful 
seed produced the awful crop, political autocracy and its 
complement, bolshevikism? 

If there was a personal creator, as taught by religions, 

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he, she or it must have had a creator and that one must 
have had progenitors; hence all such propositions are 
undisguised attempts at humbuggery to secure power 
for the rascally promulgators. 

If it is possible for "Medical Science" to invent or 
discover "cures" or artificial "preventives" for alleged 
"diseases" it is also possible to invent medicines or "vacci- 
nation" to make food and sleep needless, which would 
save for work at least one-third of the average life. 

There are Natural laws. None know when, where or 
how they originated. It makes no difference who or what 
made them; we have them; but neither religious or medical 
schools of the orthodox type teach anything about them. 
The astronomy of Joshua is on a par with the "inoculation" 
of "police-power" medical government. 

Each individual is endowed with mental capacity. 
Some have better quality or greater amount than others. 
Some are doubly endowed. Such have the greater respon- 
sibility, and when they abuse it, Natural laws will regulate 
them or their progeny. It always has. It always will. 

It is the purpose of this book to introduce methods of 
analysis of causes of ills by showing: First, what normal, 
Natural standards of living are; Second, that the one- 
idea methods, in vogue, have no relation thereto. 

The Author. 



CHAPTER I. 
Pertaining to Natural Light. 

Chapter I of the book of Genesis, "holy bible," begins 
as follows: "And in the beginning God created the heaven 
and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; 
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the 
spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And 
God said, Let there be light; and there was light. And 
God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided 
the light and the darkness. And God called the light 
Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the eve- 
ning and the morning were the first day." 

This is the story which, in various forms, has been 
handed from generation to generation since long before 
the Christian god and the "holy bible" were thought of. 
It grew with repeating until, when the leaders of primitive 
mankind began to learn how to write and read, they dis- 
covered they had a means of impressing the herd with the 
superiority of leaders and of playing a joke on posterity; 
but I do not believe, for a moment, that the most san- 
guine of them had the faintest idea they would be taken 
seriously during all the centuries which have passed. The 
fanatics of today insist the fact that the humbug still works 
is proof the statements are facts. 

The old-time leaders took the lives of all who attempted 
to educate the masses in mathematics, in which field 
have been found all of the Natural truths ever proved. 
The leaders of today would, if they dared,' practice similar 
tactics; but they are as cowardly as they are credulous, and 
content themselves with slander — and prayer. 

Mathematics, unknown to the authors of the "bible," 

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tells us that light is a composite substance, different from 
everything else. It comprises elements which, when 
separated by passing it through a transparent prism, exhibit 
seven distinct colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indi- 
go, violet. From these it has been found there are four 
primary colors: red, yellow, green and blue; the first and 
third and the second and fourth of which are complemen- 
tary to each other. Try an experiment: Cut small squares 
from papers of each of these colors and paste them on sep- 
arate sheets o* white paper; take the red in one hand and 
a sheet of plain white paper in the other; gaze steadily 
at the red for a short time when a slight halo will appear 
around it; then slip the white paper over it and the com- 
plementary color, green, will appear. Try the green and 
the red will appear; take the yellow and blue will appear; 
try the blue and the yellow will exhibit. By this law any 
shade of the primary colors will c'assify itself when such 
classification would be difficult otherwise. Pale green is 
the nearest white, but pale blue is often mistaken for it; 
this test will settle the matter because if tried on pale blue, 
yellow will appear, and if on pale green, red will be the com- 
plementary exhibit. 

Light not only illuminates; it invigorates, physically 
and metaphysically. The chemistry of the mineral vege- 
table and animal kingdoms, as well as of the planetary 
systems, comprises light as a dominant factor. Its laws of 
refraction, reflection, dispersion and absorption not only 
enable students to master terrestrial problems, but as- 
tronomers invade celestial fields and measure distances, 
sizes, weights and compositions of planets. These laws 
have not only made possible the telescope, but also the 
microscope, and, last but not least, lenses with which the 
enormous nerve strain, caused by defectively developed 
eyes, is saved by skillful work of competent Ophthalmolo- 
gists. 

Light combines the fundamental principles of both 

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chemistry and mechanics; of theory and practice; of con- 
stancy and inconstancy; of physics and metaphysics. 

Aristotle, Greek philosopher and teacher, born, 384 
B. C; died, 322 B. C; controverted Plato's proposition 
that "the universal is the only 'light' in which the par- 
ticular can be seen," by declaring and proving that "partic- 
ulars are necessary in order that we may comprehend the 
universal." He coined the word "Metaphysics," mean- 
ing "after physics," as an expression of his reasoning. 
Aristotle was too advanced for the Athenians, who charged 
him with "impiety," and, in order to escape the fate of 
Socrates, he fled the country. 

In the "critical angle" of light, beyond which total re- 
flection occurs, we have proof of the probability that all 
laws are limited in their application ; and elsewhere is abun- 
dant evidence of the fact; hence the religious belief in"god 
miracles" is proved silly. In the focuses and conjugate 
focuses of light by lenses the absolute limitations of the 
laws of refraction, etc., are established and principles elu- 
cidated which, when the attempt to apply them physio- 
logically is made, discovers to the student that there is a 
step between physics and metaphysics, viz.: Physiology. 
It is demonstrated in the practice of Ophthalmology, and 
we have found it equally practicable in other branches of 
our work, not only mechanically but chemically. In the 
spherical aberration of lenses we find physical reasons for 
the variety of physiological and mental idiosyncrasies of the 
human family. In the chromatic aberration of transparent 
media we have physical evidence which, employed physio- 
logically and metaphysically, enables us to determine 
the dispositions and temperaments of patients. In the mul- 
tiplicity of the problems found in physical optics we learn 
why the vast majority is content to accept assertions and 
repeat them as facts, without bothering to learn truths by 
assiduous labor — they are mentally lazy, almost to the 
point of atrophy. 

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In the study of physical laws we find that matter is 
indestructible; that when our physical bodies give up the 
"light" of life, the elements return to the masses from which 
they came. From this fact we reason, metaphysically, 
that the intangible mentality probably takes a similar 
course but one unfathomable to us because of the inappli- 
cability of physics. Hence, we do not believe in heavens 
or hells, in resurrections or judgments, in personal gods or 
omnipotent devils; and we do believe we uttered an incon- 
trovertible truth in the third paragraph of the introduction 
to this work. 



"When you set yourself up, 


by 3 r our 


brains, luck or pluck, 




Just above the dead level of 


men, 


You have only begun on the fight 


of your life ; 




For the envious aim at yon 


then." 



CHAPTER II. 
Condensed Facts About the Human Body. 

For the same reason physics antecedes metaphysics 
in general, the study of anatomy is precedent to physi- 
ology; but, after some preliminary specifications and find- 
ing that both subjects are physiological, they are made 
more comprehensive by taking them together. 

Chemically the anatomical body is a constant, com- 
posed of water, four-fifths, and salts (nitrates, phos- 
phates and carbonates), one-fifth. The elemental com- 
position includes: Nitrogen, about 3 pounds; Oxygen, 111 
pounds ;Hydrogen, 14 pounds; Carbon, 21 pounds; Phos- 
phorous, 2 pounds; Calcium, 2 pounds; Sulphur, Chlorine 
and Sodium, about 2 ounces each; Iron, Potassium, Magne- 
sium, Fluorine and Silicon, a few grains each. Oxygen 
and hydrogen are present in the proportions which form 
water and amount to about 80 per cent of the whole. 
Bone is about one-third animal and two-thirds earthy 
matter; of the latter, approximately five-sixths is calcium 
phosphate, the remainder being sodium and magnesium 
compounds. The animal portion is fat, nerves and blood- 
vessels. 

Chemically the physiological body, which is an incon- 
stant, requires great variety in food to supply varying 
quantities of essential elements for digestion and other 
functions in addition to supplying those utilized in the 
tearing down and rebuilding processes which are constantly 
at work during life. 

Mechanically the anatomical body comprises the 
skeleton or bony structure and the ligaments which artic- 
ulate them; the muscles and nerves to operate them; the 

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fascia, or connective tissue; the blood and lymphatic 
systems. 

Mechanically the physiological body includes the brain 
and nervous systems, for sensation and motion; the organs 
of special sense, (of which seeing and hearing are mechan- 
ical, while smelling and tasting are chemical); the heart, 
for pumping blood (about 16 tons daily); the lungs, to 
throw off carbon dioxide and take on oxygen; the stomach, 
spleen, intestines and mesenteries, for digestion and assimi- 
lation; the liver for rectifying crude blood, as it comes from 
the digestive apparatus; the kidneys and bladder to extract 
and contain urine, which carries dangerous and waste 
matter; the sex organs — a topic declared, by religious 
fanatics, unfit for the public to be informed about in a 
book of general circulation; a declaration put into the 
statutes in violation of the Constitution, because it helps 
establishment of religion. It affords another bit of 
proof that credulity and ignorance are inconsistent and 
brutal; that while they pretend to believe their "god" is 
good, holy, wise and everything, when it is to the interest 
of their schemes to discredit him they do not hesitate to 
picture his work as lewd. There will be more on this sub- 
ject when we come to the point of considering their mental- 
ities. 

For simplicity and convenience we have made four 
anatomical divisions and eight physiological ones in the 
foregoing paragraphs. Combining anatomy and physi- 
ology we have the following divisions for practical purposes: 

1. The Nervous System. 

2. The Circulatory System. 

3. The Digestive System. 

4. The Egestive System. 

The nervous system comprises the brain, with the 
cerebrum or intellectual portion above and the cerebellum 
or physical portion below and behind; the twelve pairs of 
cranial nerves and the spinal cord with its 31 pairs of trunk 

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lines and branches, a total of 43 pairs to express life and 
operate its functions. Its grand divisions are sensation 
and motion; its sub-divisions are the special senses, loco- 
motion, vasculo-motion and metabolism; the latter being 
the exercise of chemical affinities in the process of recon- 
struction of tissues. The anatomy of this system is exhibit- 
ed in the nerve structures ; the physiology is in the electric 
currents; afferent, toward the brain and efferent, from it. 

The circulatory system includes the lymphatics and 
four blood systems, viz.: the portal, or crude blood system 
of branches from the stomach and spleen, superior and 
inferior mesenteric regions, enfolding the small intestines, 
to the liver; the pulmonary system, where the rectified 
blood, sent from the liver via the heart, is aereated; the 
arterial system, from the lungs, via the heart, into the 
body generally; the venous system, which carries impurities 
out of the body by way of the lungs and other divisions of 
the egestive system. The lymphatic system begins in the 
lacteals of the mesenteries, which empty into the "recepta- 
culum chyli," situated in the upper back part of the 
abdominal cavity, thence to the thoracic duct, into the 
left subclavian vein, to the heart, lungs and arterial system; 
also via branches from the duct throughout the body. 
The object of this system is to carry the elements which 
sustain life and drain it of impurities and waste. 

The digestive system, includes the mouth, pharynx, 
oesophagus, stomach, duodenum, jejunum, ileum and 
colons, and together with the chemistry of the fluids of 
the stomach, pancreas, liver and intestines, constitute the 
chemico-mechanical arrangement provided to take needed 
elements from food and supply them to the nervous system 
through the agency of the circulatory systems. Here we 
have a physical-physiological reason why we should have 
knowledge of what, when and how to eat. 

The egestive system is a most complex one; but, so far 
as digestion is concerned, its principal divisions are the 

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bowels, the urinary tract, the lungs and the sweat glands. 
The physiological importance of this system cannot be 
overestimated, because, when it is not in perfect operation, 
digestion is interfered with, the circulation runs short of 
supplies and the nervous system begins to send out calls 
for help, which doctors of the fanatical schools call symp- 
toms of "disease" indicating the need for drugs to "cure," 
when, as a matter of fact they are nothing of the sort. 
Pain, fever, itching, etc., are merely automatic burglar 
alarms, and if the doctors knew what each means they 
would not need resort to hypodermics or habit-forming 
drugs to stop "pains," or cold baths to "relieve fevers," 
and they would never be led into the gross crime of em- 
ploying serum therapy to "cure" the sick or to prevent 
the well from becoming "diseased." 

The nervous system is arranged for involuntary as well 
as voluntary action in the performance of the functions 
of all the # systems; but there is such a complete interde- 
pendence between all of the systems that if one gets out 
of order notice is immediately given, automatically, through 
the nervous department. For this reason we insist all ills 
are nervous ills; we get our first symptoms of disorder and 
the first signs of return to normal through this medium. 
In the brain itself we have not only mental symptoms of 
departure from true balance, but we have positive physical 
changes there which are regarded as the most distressing 
of all symptoms; in the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, throat, 
tongue, teeth, are wires which send out calls for attention, 
which, if understood as they should be, by not only doctors 
but the public generally, would be responded to so promptly 
that many of the minor and some of the major ills would 
be aborted; in the lungs and digestive apparatus, the eges- 
tive organs and even the skin are wires always ready to 
report the first indication of trouble. 

Remembering that perfectly healthy conditions are 
always comfortable, the following paragraphic enumeration 

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of some of the alarms may aid the reader to observe others 
and value their importance; and obedience to Nature's 
calls will not only improve general physiological condi- 
tions, but mental ones will show a corresponding benefit- 
no plrysiologically deranged person is mentally in perfect 
balance : 

Mental irritability usually means indigestion. 

Mental dullness means eye strain, particularly in school 
children. 

Melancholy may be from congenital causes, but is often, 
from general debility. 

Illusions and fads are indicative of superstition, which 
means mental weakness, sure to involve body physiolog3 T . 

Jealousy is a confession of the superiority of the 
person it is directed against; it indicates a malicious dis- 
position and breeds unhappiness for all who come in con- 
tact with the exhibitors. 

Religious zeal is largely a product of indigestion, mental 
and physiological. Exhibitors prove there is a hell— on 
earth — by making trouble, whenever it is possible, for all 
who do not agree with them. They employ politics, 
"moral codes" and other dubious methods to accomplish 
their objects. 

Carelessness is a mental disorder which has caused lots 
of trouble. One exhibit is indifference to the rights of 
others, by failure to keep business or social engagements. 
It is a crime, punishable, sooner or later, by ostracization. 
The guilty ones also neglect themselves, because they are 
deficient in temperament. 

Fear and hope are exhibitions of mental weakness 
which are utilized successfully by designing leaders to form 
cults in religion and medicine. They are the stronghold of 
the "orthodox," who are exemplars of sophism and bigotry. 

Beware of the person who does not like children, ani- 
mals, music and flowers. Also be cautious in dealing with 
those who are foolish over them. The first are of criminal 

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tendencies; the second are absolutely unreliable in business 
and social affairs. 



Inflammation of the eyes, growths thereon, twitching 
of lids, styes, swellings, granulations, suppurations, etc., 
mean need for glasses, no matter how good the vision is, 
and nothing but the constant wearing of properly fitted 
ones will relieve the exhibits permanently. Do not permit 
oculists to put "drops" in the eyes, nor should you believe 
anyone who tells you eyes can be fitted to glasses correctly 
in a few minutes or hours. Anyone should understand 
that the entire nervous system has to undergo readjust- 
ment and to do a job right should require several visits to 
a real Ophthalmologist. It will be an agreeable surprise 
to many to find how other symptoms may be reached by 
themselves with the aid of a competent Ophthalmologist, 
even after some of "the best in the country" have had their 
innings, from dope to surgery. 

Cross-eyes mean great eye defects or operations for 
them by surgeons who didn't know enough anatomy to 
know that knife or scissors surgery is not needed for such 
cases. Our school and its graduates have been straighten- 
ing all sorts of cross-eyes without operation for more than 
twenty-five years. 

If the baby's eyelids stick together in the mornings, 
wash gently with hot water and a soft cloth, then drop 
some cold salt water in them, and, as soon as possible see 
an Ophthalmologist. 

Roaring in the ears, "tinitis aurium," means there is a 
hypertrophic condition in labyrinth or tube. It is usually 
associated with so-called "catarrh" of the nasal passages. 
See chapter on "Home Treatment of Disorders." Pus 
discharges from the ears, or pains therein need prompt 
attention. 

Enlarged tonsils, adenoids in the nasal passages, and 

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habitual sore throat, with periodical "diphtheria" are in- 
dicative of wrong living. 

Bad teeth indicate a deficient body chemistry; too much 
"carbohydrate" food; too much orthodox medical teachings, 
hence wrong living, not only dietetically, but otherwise. 
If the roots are bad it usually means "pull." See a dentist, 
but do not waste much time in "treatments" if the roots 
are bad. If it is the body of the tooth, it may be fixed 
readily. 

Pimples, rashes, boils, etc., always mean bad living 
is one of the chief causes; but there are liable to be many 
others. They are humiliating and as needless and dis- 
graceful as "catarrh." Learn rational living and be happy. 

Goitre is an exhibit meaning a radically disordered 
chemistry, probably partly congenital, but always a com- 
plication of causes. Do not delay seeking skilled help ; but 
avoid operations. Their record is bad. 

"Rheumatism," "erysipelas," and other similar "dis- 
eases" are symptoms of acute blood poisoning. "Cures" 
do not work on them, or on anything else, for that matter. 
The entire system needs intelligent overhauling. People 
who say they can't eat strawberries, or have some other 
fad, are the common exhibitors of these derangements, 
and many of them appear to imagine it is quite a circum- 
stance to be the possessor of something freakish. But when 
we tell them they are as freakish mentally they do not 
appear to be quite so proud of that part of it. They make 
disagreeable, unreliable patients. 

Hunger after eating is a positive indication the chemical 
apparatus is overloaded. It is a common symptom, even 
among doctors, who ought to know better than to gorge 
themselves; but they consistently teach the public to "eat 
what you please and send for the doctor." We eat any- 
thing eatable, but we see to it that our foods are combined 
in such a manner that they are almost self-digesting. 

Need for food is suggested naturally in healthy people 

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by a noticeable subnormality of the capacity for consecu- 
tive thought. It is exhibited more conspicuously in those 
whose work is largely mental, many of whom neglect them- 
selves in their interest for the work at hand. 

Sleeplessness may come from temporary mental re- 
sponsibilities, but, as a rule, it means systemic disorders. 

Nightmare is usually a product of over-eating just be- 
fore retiring. In this connection, a comparatively small 
amount of decidedly improper food is worse than an over- 
load of good items; but overloading quantitatively is as 
effective in producing bad dreams as qualitative excesses. 

The bowels should act at least once daily; the stools 
should be soft, free from very offensive odor, of a yellowish- 
brown color, and copious enough to make it. evident that 
normal waste is being discharged. 

Urine should be of a pale straw color and practically 
odorless, except in the morning, when it has been retained 
all night. Frequent desire to void urine, with only small 
amounts passed, indicates stricture of the mouth of the 
bladder. Frequent desire and large amounts of discharge 
mean systemic chemical derangement which needs prompt 
attention. 

Dull but constant headaches mean indigestion; even 
if the bowels are working normally. Periodic sick-head- 
aches are indications of eye strain with probable need of a 
general overhauling of the entire physiology. 

Pains range in acuteness from slight twinges to those 
of such severity they are almost unbearable, as neuralgia, 
for example; but they all have their meanings. These will 
be considered more fully in a chapter on "Home Treat- 
ments for Disorders." A slight displacement of a dorsal 
vertebra is often exceedingly painful and is often "diag- 
nosed" by old-school doctors as a "disease." But it dees 
not follow that all pains in the back are from displacements 
of vertebrae. This is where the "csteos" and "chiros" make 
their mistakes. We have found many of the pains of so- 

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called "angina pectoris" were not in the heart at all, but 
were simple products of gastric indigestion. 

Fever is one of the best friends of humanity. It is also 
one of the symptoms employed by crooked or ignorant 
doctors to frighten people. The entire nervous system is 
poised so delicately that it exhibits irritation on slight 
provocation. Often there is a rise in temperature, but 
other symptoms, such as tonic spasm to the point of pain, 
cause the fever to be over-looked. 

A temperature below the normal 98.6 is often a more 
important symptom than that of 3 points above normal. 
Fright over any symptom does not help matters any. Al- 
ways use common sense, but attend to the alarms. If you 
are unable to locate the cause, seek help. 

Heart troubles, such as "mitral valve disease," are very 
common ; but they do not mean what the orthodox doctors 
claim. They do mean an overtaxed nerve supply. Palpi- 
tation, skipping beats, irregular beats, etc., are all in the 
same category. There is no particular danger to the heart, 
but there is immediate need for rest and repairs, else there 
may be paralysis, cerebral hemorrhages, etc., which, of 
course, are serious. 

The glands of the groins and arm-pits are the seats of 
deposits of amyloids, a chalky-starchy mixture, often caus- 
ing much distress by exhibiting "rheumatic" pains. Some- 
times these deposits are in joints; and often, there are 
slight displacements of the hip or shoulder joints, with 
similar symptoms. The orthodox doctors find drugs do 
not relieve these troubles and the "cult" doctors find me- 
chanical therapy does not work. We combine chemistry 
and mechanics and get there all the time. 

Obesity is a symptom of ignorance of how to live and 
indifference with reference to learning. The subjects 
usually expire from "apoplexy." They are easily exhausted 
with physical effort, hence cultivate easy methods of 
earning livelihoods; they usually sell mining stocks or runs 

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for office. They are often jolly fellows, but woe be when 
they grow sick. There is an intuition of danger and their 
conditions are made worse by fear. If one of the fat ones 
comes down with an enteric disorder, you might as well 
send for the undertaker. His physical condition and his 
fear form an almost fatal combination. 

Nose-bleed has saved many from "apoplexy," but it 
is a symptom of need for a thorough chemical renovation 
of the entire system. Young people with such exhibits 
will not live many years if they do not change their habits 
of living under strict instructions from a Neurologist. 

"Epilepsy" is a symptom indicating not only congenital 
but acquired causes. The victims are usually spoiled by 
parents, in childhood, because they are delicate — possibly 
from eye-strain — they develop tempers, are awfully bad 
eaters, careless and unreliable mentally, and often the 
victims i)f iodide of potassium and other dope which never 
did good and always does more or less damage mentally. 

Bed-wetting by children is a symptom of nervous strain 
to the spasm point and frequently follows a convulsion, 
possibly slight, but, nevertheless, a convulsion. If a child 
complains of morning headaches with this exhibit, it needs 
prompt attention, not only to its eyes but to its general 
body chemistry. 

Anaemia, is not always indicated by pallor; and pallor 
dees not always mean anaemia; but when there is general 
debility nervously, it is foolish to delay attention to in- 
dicated conditions. Our method of measuring the nerve 
supply and demand, and of ascertaining the exact condition 
of the blood, all through the eyes, which are really the 
double gauges of the body, place us far and away ahead 
of all other classes of practitioners. 

Dysmenorrhoea (painful menstruation) is a symptom 
of tonic spasm of the entire nervous system, which has 
baffled all systems of practice, except ours. The menstrual 
function should transpire without pain. Therefore, when 

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there is pain it need not be allowed to repeat itself. We 
do it all without drugs or operations. 

Menorrhagia, (flooding at the menstrual period) is 
dangerous weakness of the nerve supply. This is a class 
of cases which are more difficult to handle because they 
are below normal; hence their treatment should be sought 
as early as possible after the symptom shows. 

Hysteria is simply a form of nervousness exhibited by 
many people of both sexes. Literally it means excitability 
from female disorders; but, as a matter of fact it has come 
from eye strain more than from any other single cause. 

A coated tongue does not mean a "torpid liver." It 
does mean chemical derangement that needs more than 
passing attention. It is an exhibit of the lymphatic system, 
which is one of the most delicate of all systems in point of 
carrying warnings. It ranks second only to the nervous 
system. 

Similar symptoms in different people do not mean the 
same cause or combination of causes. Different symptoms 
in several people may prove to be from similar causes; 
hence it is always well to consult a competent doctor unless 
the home treatment, described in another chapter, gives 
relief and there is no recurrence of trouble. 

All talk of "heredity" of "disease," in the sense the 
words are commonly understood, is unqualified nonsense. 



In this connection the possible causes of ills need intro- 
duction. We have grouped them in their order of possi- 
bility, as follows: 

.. Congenital. 

!. Infection. 

\. Malnutritio] 

L Physical Shi 

>. Mental Sho< 

Each of these groups includes a variety of possibilities, 
so that the total number thereof is great enough to show 

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1. 


Congenital. 


6. 


Physiological Strain. 


2. 


Infection. 


7. 


Mental Strain. 


3. 


Malnutrition. 


8. 


Habits. 


4. 


Physical Shock. 


9. 


Occupation. 


5. 


Mental Shock. 


10. 


Atmospheric Influences. 



the impossibilities of "medical science" efforts to devise 
"cures" or "preventives" along the lines they have always 
pursued, namely: drug medication and political legisla- 
tion. The attitude of the public against orthodox medi- 
cine is a Natural product of their failure to receive benefits 
and of their actually having suffered harm from the prac- 
tice and tactics of Medical Unionism. 

In the numerals, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, we have all 
of the figures with which the business of the world is done. 
In the ten groups are all of the factors for possible com- 
binations of causes of human ills. It follows that when 
these are combined in different persons with different 
physiological and mental capacities and susceptibilities, 
no arbitrary procedure, such as that adopted by the 
"regular" school of practice and its imitators, can hope 
to succeed. Our System of Mature Medicine is strictly 
in accord with Natural laws, which have always existed; 
and, while our school is only twenty-six years old, its 
methods are as old as Creation. 

Congenital refers to conditions preceding birth. To 
be well born there must be intelligent parentage; healthy 
mental and physiological conditions of parents, previous 
to conception, during gestation. Unfortunately orthodox 
religion and medicine have combined to interfere with 
education preparatory to parenthood, by "laws" which 
declare such education "obscene." Naturally nearly all 
children are accidents, products of lust gratification. A 
large number of children bred and born under our instruc- 
tion were delivered without pain or fever; they were fed 
and otherwise cared for rationally, with the result that 
while some of them are over twenty years old, none have 
ever been ill a minute. They have been Naturally immune 
from everything, from "colic" as babies to "smallpox" and 
all other "diseases." In handling patients the second thing 
we inquire about is the family history. These are regarded, 
of course, as professional secrets, not to be violated. 

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Infection, may be congenital or acquired; it ranges from 
mental distemper to that orthodox "disease," syphilis. 
It may be caused by accident or "vaccination." It may 
develop idiopathically, from wrong combinations of foods. 
It may be chemical or mechanical in origin, or from a 
combination of both. It may be a combination of con- 
genital and acquired. 

Malnutrition may be partly due to congenital condi- 
tions, or to infection; it is rarely from lack of food and often 
occurs from too much. It is largely due to wrong food com- 
binations and to physiological strain from eye defects and 
other items of overtaxation. Nutrition depends upon 
harmonious action of the four great systems named at the 
beginning of this chapter; hence all of the possible causes 
listed as groups above must be considered in laying out 
a system of practice. The reader may get some idea of 
his or her limitations in the care of self and family, and 
realize the value of the services of those who have made 
the subjects matters of years of deliberate preparation 
for practice. 

Physical shock may be comparatively slight with very 
bad effects, or it may be great with little damage; it ranges 
in possibilities from a child being dropped by its nurse to 
the shell-shock of war. Those whose nervous systems are 
in good order survive jolts that would kill ordinary mortals. 

Mental shock may be from physical causes; but the 
commonest are surprises, such as sudden grief, joy, fear, 
anger. Those who are already overtaxed nervously from 
physiological strain or other causes, succumb more easily 
to this factor. It should, therefore, be the fixed policy of 
all to not only keep themselves in good physiological con- 
dition, but to anticipate possible mental shocks and how 
to receive them. 

Physiological strain means any demands on the nervous 
system in excess of normal standards. This is an important 
branch of study, as will be seen by perusal of the chapter 

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on "Nerve Strain Through the Eyes." It is in that de- 
partment we find the basis for all of our standards of meas- 
uring supplies and demands nervously. Excessive exertion, 
even by a perfectly normal person, is harmful; note that 
the prize-fighter is an old man at thirty-five ; an overloaded 
stomach causes physiological strain, chemical and mechan- 
ical; normal demands on a subnormal nervous system is 
strain. 

Mental strain is akin to mental shock; it is more per- 
sistent and is often unnecessary, because, if a victim of 
worry will stop to analyze things it will soon be discovered 
that coolness and deliberation are essential to the proper 
handling of the problems of life. Preparedness is the surest 
safeguard against this group of causes. If you can't help 
a situation, do not worry. If you can help it, do so, and 
you will not need to worry. 

Habits, except those of breathing, taking food, dis- 
charging waste and sleeping, are all acquired. Even those 
named are usually practiced badly. Of all habits, Natural 
and acquired, the "eat habit" is the worst. It is a Natural 
habit perverted; restricted to meals and governed largely 
by customs; the morning meal is insufficient or omitted 
entirely and the evening "dinner" is an abomination — it 
is the chief cause of the no-breakfast habit. Who would 
think of starting a factory in the morning without a good 
fire under the boilers? Your bodies are factories with a 
large number of machines, all of which require force to 
operate them. The drug and liquor habits are easy to 
handle in comparison with that of eating, because alleaters 
are possessed of the notion that they know what is good 
for them and Medical Trust writers tell them that "God 
gave us our tastes; eat anything that tastes good." 

Occupation is one of the essentials to health and happi- 
ness. Some are more hazardous than others, of course, 
but, after being settled in choice, if each individual will 
adopt the easiest way of accomplishing tasks, by knowing 

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the theoretical as well as the practical side of the work, 
there will be a minimum mental and physiological strain; 
then, with proper attention to generalities, all will be well. 
Atmospheric influences are extreme and temperate, 
at the poles and on the equator there are few people; in the 
temperate zones are to be found the population of the world. 
In the United States we have the East, South and West, 
all coast territories, with the great Inter-Mountain region 
from the Alleghenies to the Rockies. The East has its 
bitter cold storms of the North and the drizzling rain and 
heat of the South; the Gulf region is swampy and malarious, 
but is being drained for agricultural purposes and for sani- 
tary reasons, with wonderful results; the West coast region 
is practically rainless, with a monotony of sunshine, "fav- 
orite sons" and real estate agents; the Inter-Mountain 
region is fifteen hundred miles square and has all varieties 
of climate; it is the heart of the country; it produces all 
except tropical fruits and is the chief market for all of those; 
it is the great grain country; it is the manufacturing region; 
it is the populous region; it is the healthy region; it has 
facilities for producing artificially all of the "climatic ad- 
vantages" advertised for the sick by the regions whose 
advertisers are either scamps or who are so ignorant they 
believe atmospheric influences are, alone, sufficient to 
cure' 



"™ " ills. 



The power of habit is exemplified in the popular 
passion for sweet and starchy foods; for late din- 
ners; for "danties", which are poisons, worse than 
intoxicating liquors. Nearly all ''temperance" fa- 
natics are bad eaters. 



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CHAPTER III. 
Nerve Strain Through the Eyes. 

Many years ago the present writer announced that 
nerve strain through the eyes is the primary cause of at 
least eighty-five per cent, of all human ills. He was ridi- 
culed and denounced, at first; later the objectors not only 
approved the statement, but one of the most radical of 
them declared it the cause, which rather overstated the 
matter, because of the great number of possible contribut- 
ing causes, many of which are superinduced by the nerve 
strain through the eyes. 

Our method of measuring the nerve supply and demand 
through # the eyes is as accurate as a gas or electric meter 
or a steam gauge. Anatomically the eyes have four and 
one-third pairs of nerves out of a total of forty-three pairs 
supplying the entire body. Physiologically we have been 
able to measure the current of nerve force by physical 
standards, finding, first, what constitutes the normal 
supply and demand; after which it is easy to figure the ex- 
cess demands in abnormal eye cases, which, of course, is 
strain; we prove the potentiality of that factor in causing 
troubles by results we get from correcting eye defects, and, 
incidentally, removing contributing causes as methodically 
as we do the eye work. 

It happens that the eyes are the only organs supplied 
with means of concealing certain deficiencies of develop- 
ment, which they do by misusing the accommodative appa- 
ratus, designed for normal eyes at close range, the average 
daily demand for which is three hours and 100,000 units 
of power. The subnormal eyes, requiring one unit of con- 
vex lens power to correct them, work this accommodative 
apparatus an average of sixteen hours daily at the rate of 

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14,400 units per hour, or 230,400 units daily, in excess of 
the normal 100,000. To do this requires a stronger pres- 
sure, or voltage, be turned on from the batteries in the 
cerebellum, or mechanical brain, in the lower back head. 
This hyper-normal current produces spasm in normal parts, 
particularly wherever there is a sphincter (circular) muscle, 
as in the stomach, bladder, uterus, anus, and the spiral 
nervous action of the circulatory systems and of the intes- 
tines, with the natural result that the functions of these 
normal parts are obstructed, digestion is arrested, assimila- 
tion reduced, egestion is inhibited, and these, in turn, 
develop other obstacles to systemic harmony, producing 
the symptoms enumerated in the preceding chapter. 

Orthodox doctors, not having been taught anything 
about physical or physiological optics, and very little 
about "diseases" of the eyes, (nearly all of which is false), 
ridicule our proposition, even in the light of their failures 
and our successes in handling general disorders. But 
ridicule never changed a fact, and their persistence in 
sticking to obsolete and illogical methods has cost them 
the respect and patronage of a very large per cent, of the 
population. It has benefited charlatans, temporarily, 
but they soon run their race and move to newer pastures 
or quit the field altogether. 

Some of the cults, like "osteopathy," "chiropractic," 
"naturopathy," etc., have gained footings because of 
persecutions by the Medical Trust, through which public 
sympathy and indignation were aroused. This is notably 
true in Ohio, where a new "law," passed by Trust machina- 
tions, intended to give the drug doctors a monopoly of 
practice, hence obviously unconstitutional, had the actual 
effect of forcing the Medical Trust Board of Examiners 
to give licenses without examination to something over 
2,000 "chiros." And the taxpayers of Ohio pay the bills. 
It should be stated in this connection that of 150,000 drug 
practitioners in the U. S., less than 30,000 belong to the 

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American Medical Association (Medical Trust) and do not 
approve of its tactics; but they are a complacent lot and 
do not see that their own rights are curtailed by the bosses, 
chief of whom is George H. Simmons, an ex-Homeopathic 
advertising quack and abortionist, of Lincoln, Neb., who 
was made a "regular" by Rush Medical College of the 
University of Chicago, after twelve days attendance. 

Good vision is not evidence of normal eyes; indeed, 
extra good vision is positive proof of hypermetropia (sub- 
normality). If the cornea is not of spherical curvature 
light entering the eye is distorted so there is not a true 
focus; this is known as astigmatism. It is an effect, exhib- 
ited at the retina, but it causes a constant accommodative 
effort to overcome it, without the remotest possibility of 
doing so, and the demand on the nervous system is doubly 
irritating. This is only true, however, in cases where the 
distortion is not sufficient to make vision so bad there is no 
improvement from the accommodative effort — the very bad 
vision cases do not try to see, hence there is no strain. Of 
course they should be fitted with glasses to improve vision, 
but the chief object in our prescribing glasses is to relieve 
nerve strain. 

Our figures for a normal person show that 100 per cent, 
supply and demand, for average daily purposes, is expressed 
by 1,000,000 units. Clinical experience covering twenty- 
six years proves it. Therefore, with an error of 1 unit in 
the eyes and a demand for 230,400 units of extra current 
each day, it is easy to understand the possibilities for 
trouble. 

The author has 3.50 units of error and for many years 
supplied 806,400 units extra (over the normal million) 
daily. As a result he was a dyspeptic, had headaches con- 
stantly, with periodic sick-headaches of great intensity, 
putting him to bed for 24 hours at a time. He had skin 
eruptions (partly due to the crime of vaccination, which 
infected him with "scrofula"), and was otherwise dis- 

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ordered. After thirty-three years of it, during which he 
studied medicine in the hope of relief which he did not find 
and which orthodox physicians were unable to furnish, 
he discovered the eye error, corrected it, and from that day 
to the present he has not had a single attack; his digestion 
improved, and with a knowledge of Natural dietetics, ac- 
quired a little later, he has been able to eat anything and 
everything reasonable with no trouble whatever. He has 
handled thousands of cases and has taught over 4,000 
students how to practice successfully, so that our school 
is taking care of at least 2 per cent, of the entire popula- 
tion of the United States each year — and the quota each 
year are all new patients, because, when we discharge a 
case it does not need further help, save in rare emergencies. 
No other school ever did anything that will compare favor- 
ably with our record. 

The public should beware of the eye practitioners, be 
they oculist, "optometrist," or alleged Ophthalmologist, 
who attempts to fit glasses at one sitting for a final correc- 
tion, or who uses the mirror test known as "retinascopy" 
or "skiascopy." Also beware of deep meniscus (little moon) 
lenses. 

It requires more skill and education to fit a pair of 
glasses correctly than is needed for the greatest of major 
surgical operations because eye patients are not under 
anaesthetics and their nervous systems are under excessive 
tension, both physiological and mental. 

The doctor who employs atropine "drops" in the eyes 
is unfit to be trusted. It is proof positive he does not know 
anything about eyes; and we stand ready to show he 
doesn't even know how to tell when his patient is com- 
pletely under the influence of the drug — it is commonly 
known as "deadly night-shade." In practicing our methods 
we have to make nerve measurements before and after 
finding the amount of the error, approximately, in order 
to establish High, Safety, Danger and Low lines with 

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reference to the patient's general condition, upon which 
we base our instructions. The correction of eye errors is 
not sufficient in itself to remove all of the causes of distress 
and permit Nature to reassert herself normally. 



The normal eye condition is called "emmetropia," 
meaning that what are termed "rays" of light, starting, 
divergent, from a point on its axis at the retina, or posterior 
pole, are rendered parallel by refraction at the two curved 
surfaces of the crystalline lens and that of the cornea. 
The transparent refracting media constitute the "dioptric 
system," the principal focal distance of which is 15.872 
millimeters, which figure, divided into 1000, which is the 
standard distance for 1 unit of lens power, gives the eye 
63 units of refracting capacity. 

All eyes which are not emmetropic are called "ame- 
tropic," meaning abnormal. This class includes about 
99 per cent, of the population of the world. I have taught 
ophthalmology and been a constant student thereof for 
nearly thirty years; I have examined thousands of pairs 
of eyes, and I have never found as much as one per cent, 
normal. 

"Hyperopia" designates the under-developed eye. 
About 90 per cent, of all people are hyperopic. "Myopia" 
is the term used for near-sight. It is found in about 9 per 
cent, of all cases; many of them being products of systemic 
changes of a pathological nature, hence regarded as "dis- 
eases" because they are often progressive and cause blind- 
ness by intra-ocular pressure on the back of the globe, 
causing a rupture of the retina. It is overdevelopment. 

Rays starting divergent from a point on the axis at the 
retina of a hyperope are still divergent after passing the 
refracting media, hence need convex lenses to finish the 
job of rendering them parallel. This need for lenses is not 
discovered by the victims because they use their accom* 
modative apparatus as has been described, but, as the 

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public is educated with reference to symptoms, the use of 
glasses will become almost universal. A natural question 
arises here in the minds of the readers : "Why is it so many 
are possessed of subnormal eyes?" and many have added,, 
cynically, "when the rest of our bodies are normal?" In 
reply we have to say that the addition to the query is made 
under false impressions. As a matter of fact very few of 
all people are normally developed in all respects: First, 
nearly all of my querists have had sub-normal noses 
where there should be a nose-bridge there is a dimple, and 
I have found such patients careless in following instruc- 
tions, opinionated, without reasons and generally unre- 
liable. Second, there is no part of the anatomy which shows 
deterioration of the race so much as the changes which have 
occurred in the ears as exhibited in the younger generations; 
it is rare that we find well developed lobes to ears, and in 
the chapter on "The Significance of Physiognomy" wilt 
be found some of the results of my observations in many 
years of practice. Third, the eyes, like the rest of the body 
parts, are not fully developed at birth, and because they 
are used from the beginning more than any other mechan- 
ical function, their development is arrested to such an 
extent that after about the eighth to twelfth year they 
cease to grow. The excessive strain on the nervous sys- 
tem, by the efforts of accommodation, often interfere with 
general development. This will be understood better when 
it is explained that a defect in the eyes sufficient to lengthen 
the focal distance of the dioptric systems one-fourth of a 
millimeter amounts to 1 unit of lens correction needed and 
a nerve strain of 230,400 units daily if it is not worn. A 
lengthening of one millimeter in the focal distance requires 
a -f-4.00 lens to correct it and the strain of accommodation 
to overcome the error is 921,600 units daily. Hyperopia is 
the cause of fretfulness in children; of hatred of school, 
and, as I have stated, is the primary cause of a vast ma- 
jority of all human ills. 

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Rays starting divergent from a point on the axis at the 
retina of a myopic eye, are rendered convergent by refrac- 
tion through the dioptric system, so they meet at a point on 
the axis before they have gone far. This is known as the 
"far point," because it is the greatest distance at which 
the eye can see clearly. Rays approaching from distances 
farther than this point are focused in front of the retina, 
hence vision is poor. Such cases do not suffer from eye 
strain, but they need concave lenses to neutralize the ex- 
cessive convexity of the dioptric system. They take rays 
coming from distant objects and cause them to enter the 
eye as divergent as if they came from the "far point" thus 
putting the retina in what is termed "conjugate focus" 
with the object. Great care must be exercised in fitting 
such eyes, because too strong lenses create an artificial 
hyperopia and consequently cause nerve strain. This is 
a very common mistake of oculists, opticians and "op- 
tometrists." Our Ophthalmologists are thoroughly trained 
in physical optics, then in anatomy and physiology, after 
which they are drilled in the technique of testing eyes and 
figuring the data obtained, so there is no possibility of 
mistake unless they are careless, which we teach is the 
greatest crime in the category. 

Physicians who call themselves "oculists" and make 
eye work a specialty, had from 48 to 60 hours instruction 
on alleged "diseases" of the eyes in medical school, during 
their several years attendance; many of them took post- 
graduate courses in eye surgery and "diseases;" but very 
few of them have the faintest idea of the laws of refraction, 
which constitutes one of the most important subjects of 
all pertaining to human disorders. They regard the fitting 
of glasses as a "mere mechanical procedure" requiring 
no preparation, and the courts have held that the fitting 
of glasses is not the practice of medicine, which is true, 
as medicine is taught in the old schools and as said fitting 
is done by "optometrists" who have actually secured 

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"laws" in many states, licensing them as professional 
people, without the formality of examination as to their 
competence, moral character or anything else, because or 
Constitutional provisions against interfering with personal 
privileges, which Constitutional privilege is at once vio- 
lated by the conduct of examining boards who endeavor 
to monopolize practice by shutting out those who would 
enter the field after such "laws" are in force. The alleged 
"laws" are frauds on the public and are the rankest sort 
of class-legislation, as are also all other practice acts. A 
licensed physician in one state, who has practiced for years 
and has a good reputation in his profession finds it difficult 
and often impossible to secure a license in another state, 
because the alleged "examination" is made so technical 
and "modern" he cannot pass it. The Medical Trust has 
provided "reciprocity" between states, but it is restricted 
to graduates from the schools which are "recognized" by 
the Trust. 

Anyone can go to an optical supply house and purchase 
an outfit for .fitting glasses, which includes a card of test 
letters, made upon a scale established mathematically, 
but few practitioners know enough about physical optics 
to figure and find whether the test letters are correct or 
not. Few of them could figure the size of the picture formed 
on the retina of an emmetropic eye with the object at any 
given distance, yet that is only one of a great many im- 
portant factors in the training necessary for expert eye 
work. It is a marvelous tribute to the nervous system to 
be able to prove that with a test letter 8.7 mm. square at 
6 meters from the eye the image formed on the retina 
is not larger than the period following this sentence; yet 
it is a fact that the message to the brain is perfectly clear 
as to details of the letter down to fifths. It is almost un- 
believeable that an overdevelopment of the eye which 
shortens the focal distance a quarter of a millimeter will 
reduce vision at least 50 per cent., nevertheless it is a fact. 

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It is also a fact that no system of practice in relation 
to human ills is anywhere near complete if it does not in- 
clude a most thorough knowledge of the laws of refraction 
and their physiological application, not only in the fitting 
of glasses but in the general analysis of cases. 



Accident insurance companies pay the face of the policy 
in case of loss of both eyes; one-half of it for the loss of one 
eye. 

Nearly all nervous and incorrigible children have eye 
defects which are largely the cause of their erratic exhibits. 
Do not neglect them. 

Girls entering womanhood may be saved years of suf- 
fering by wearing glasses constantly. Do not let pride 
interfere,, because nothing but the eye correction will 
accomplish the desired object. Of course, some will need 
.additional attention to other possible causes. See other 
chapters for particulars. 

Do not wear colored glasses, except for special occasions, 
such as trips on snow or water in bright, sunny days; they 
are injurious, because they give too much shade and make 
the eyes weak. 

Do not be misled by the fantastic names given to 
advertised glasses. They are schemes to get your money; 
they have no especial values. 



CHAPTER IV. 
The Outrage of Vaccination. 

Vaccination, and all serum therapy, is an outrageous 
experiment, wrong in theory, because it is unnatural, and 
vile in practice, as is proved by the effects. 

The "Council of Pharmacy and Chemistry" of the A. 
M. A., (Medical Trust), met in Chicago in April, 1919, and 
appointed a committee "to study the problems of serum 
and vaccine therapy. This to the end that it might pub- 
lish in the Journal, for the information of the medical pro- 
fession, the evidence obtainable regarding both the value 
of, and also the dangers incident to, the use of serum and 
vaccines. The study is to include (a) an exhaustive review 
of the literature, (b) a tabulation of the experiences of the 
Army and Navy as revealed in available official reports, 
and (c) a review of the data relative to these therapeutic 
agencies available in the various clinics of scientific stand- 
ing/' says the Journal of the A. M. A., April 26, 1919. 

In a recent decision (1919) of the Supreme Court of 
Illinois, affirming a decree that dismissed without equity 
a bill Of complaint to enjoin the officials of Granite City, 
Illinois, from preventing the complainants attending the 
public schools of that. city unless they were first vaccinated, 
said: "The rule is firmly established in Illinois that school 
directors and boards of education have no authority to 
exclude children from the public schools on the ground, 
simply, that they refuse to be vaccinated, unless, in cases 
of emergency, in the exercise of the police power, it is 
necessary, or reasonably appears to be necessary to prevent 
the contagion of smallpox. But it appeared, in the cases 
wherein that rule was established, that there was no epi- 

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demic or prevalence of smallpox and that the pupils were 
in a healthy condition and had not been exposed to small- 
pox; and this court held it to be unreasonable to require 
vaccination as a prerequisite to admission to the public 
schools in such cases, and that there was no law in Illinois 
authorizing such action." 

This decision, omitting to state what constitutes an 
epidemic, which Webster says means "spreading widely, 
among great numbers/ ' makes it possible for the Medical 
Trust officials to declare an epidemic whenever it wants to 
make a few hundreds of thousands of dollars for its mem- 
bers. 

Following is an extract from a letter to me by "W. C. 
Braisted, Surgeon General, U. S. Navy," a member of 
the Medical Trust, which dominates in government 
medical affairs and just elected president thereof: 

"One of the regulations of the Navy requires that 
every one who enlists or enrolls in the service shall be 
vaccinated and those who enlist or enroll obligate them- 
selves to conform to the regulations of the Navy. Vac- 
cination is not done by force, but anyone who refuses 
vaccination is usually discharged or courtmartialed for 
violation of the regulations and disobedience of orders. 
Your paper containing your arguments against vaccina- 
tion was not received by this bureau. Whatever your 
arguments may be the law of the Navy is that vaccination 
shall be done and this will be carried out until the law is 
abrogated." 

My argument is that if those who believe in the vile rite 
choose to accept its alleged benefits, they should be allowed 
to do so; and those who elect to risk smallpox rather than 
the well-known disasters of vaccination, should also be 
allowed to do so, because, if vaccination prevents smallpox 
those who are vaccinated will be perfectly safe. There is 
just as much reason for not vaccinating any because of 
the objections of many as there is for insisting all submit 

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because a few mercenaries and fools pretend they believe 
in it. 

The alleged "law of the Navy" is not a law at all. It 
is merely a Medical Trust rule. That it is a cowardly 
method of procedure is obvious. That it is regarded by 
themselves as unimportant is proved by the fact that my 
daughter, a yeomanette, worked in the Navy Department 
for five months and was not vaccinated until the day of 
her discharge, when she was not only vaccinated but was 
inoculated with "anti-typhoid" serum — by a gob, not a 
doctor — and when she arrived at home the next day she 
was in a state of near collapse. Frequent hot baths and 
thorough purgation aborted the threatened disaster to her, 
but my indignation over the dastardly assault has not 
cooled nor will it until I shall have exposed the official 
martinets most effectively. 

I have it from the Registrar-General's office, London, 
that vaccination and serum therapy are not compulsory 
in the English Army and Navy, but it is stated that a 
"vast majority accept them/' which proves two things: 
First, that English physicians are not so bigoted that they 
would insist upon the rite being visited upon intelligent 
people who object to it; Second, that "the vast majority" 
do not think. When it was attempted to pass a compulsory 
law in that behalf a few years ago the intelligent people 
of England registered such a protest that provision was 
made that conscientious objectors, over twenty-one years 
of age, might register their objections for themselves and 
for those under their guardianship, and be excused from 
the rite. 

The history of vaccination and serum therapy condemns 
it conclusively. The history of smallpox is two-fold: 
First, those who had it and survived, which "the vast 
majority" did, were in better health thereafter than ever 
before; Second, in thoroughly vaccinated Japan, where it 
is done annually to every man, woman and child, they have 

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had riotous epidemics of smallpox in very recent years. 

Even in this benighted, Trust-ridden country, pro- 
vaccination doctors do not vaccinate those who are in a 
state of poor health, because, they admit, it would be at- 
tended with great danger. The "researches" now being 
made are further evidence they are afraid of it themselves; 
then why force it upon those who see it is illogical and un- 
natural theoretically and vicious practically? Why do 
the courts uphold such dubious practices? Are they ig- 
norant, or are they venal? 

In Minnesota, a few years ago, the people were so 
vigorous in their protests against the practice that the 
"health" boards announced the compulsory law would 
not be enforced and if thousands died from smallpox it 
would be their own fault. Smallpox was "epidemic," ac- 
cording to the "authorities," in Duluth and other cities; 
but it soon exhausted itself and the people won a victory, 
the news* of which has been carefully suppressed by the 
Trust Press and the Trust Doctors. 

In the January number of our paper, "Mature Medi- 
cine," was printed the experience of a Mr. Butler, of Cal- 
gary, Canada, with vaccination and feeding of cattle. He 
had about 3,000 head, and, as there was an epidemic of 
"blackleg" the government ordered the lot to be vaccinated. 
As one result, the death rate of the herd rose from a normal 
8 to 48 the first year and to 65 the second year, when the 
owners refused to submit to further experiments at their 
expense. Another result was that the females appeared 
to be sterilized for the birth rate fell as the death rate rose. 
At another time he tried an experiment in the matter of 
feeding. He divided his herd equally and fed one lot on 
whole wheat; the other lot was fed on hay exclusively. 
The first lot grew fat, but were not strong; the calves were 
excessively fat, some weighing 110 pounds at birth — they 
nearly all died at once and the mothers expired in labor 
very often. The other lot was not so fat, nor were their 

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calves, but both mothers and calves were strong, delivery- 
safe and the death rate practically nothing. 

We know that the same state of affairs exists in the 
human family — all because fanatics are permitted to force 
the public to submit to their experiments. It is high time 
the victims who have survived and the prospective sub- 
jects arise and resist, with force, if need be, such un-Demo- 
cratic practices. 

It is a peculiar situation when, on the one hand liquors 
are abolished because they have been misused by some, 
while on the other hand, the vaccine and serum fads are 
forced on people who have the very best of health reasons for 
not wanting them. Religion has made more maniacs than 
liquor ever did, yet "laws" are made in its behalf, in viola- 
tion of a special clause in the U. S. Constitution forbidding 
it, while the authorities violate the same Constitution to 
put liquor men out of business. Our soldier boys went 
abroad to fight for Democracy and while they were gone, 
this country was made a most outrageous oligarchy at the 
behest of fanactics and profiteers. That there is great 
trouble ahead for the United States is as sure as there is 
a Natural law. As August Bebel predicted the present 
German predicament to his countrymen in 1904, so I fore- 
cast disaster in this country if those in office continue their 
abuses of power at the turning of the thumbs of sects and 
cliques whose votes are dumped as one for those who sub- 
mit to their domination. 



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CHAPTER V. 
Foods, Nitrogenous and Carbonaceous. 

We are born according to Natural laws, handicapped 
by artificial ones. 

A child, born out of wedlock, is declared by religious 
dictum a "bastard" which "cannot enter the kingdom of 
heaven." Yet it is alleged God made the laws of pro- 
creation and love! 

The majority live haphazard and according to fads. 
Natural results : Mental and physiological disorders which, 
through assiduously cultivated superstition, make the 
victims more susceptible to the machinations of religious 
and medical charlatans, the greatest of which constantly 
resort to organized slander — organized in the names of 
"religion" and "scientific medicine" — by which the in- 
dividual cowards are, in a measure, protected from ex- 
posure and chastisement. 

The two bodies mentioned comprise less than one-third 
of the population of the United States and less than one- 
fifth of the medical practitioners of this Union. Yet both 
have long dominated politics and the two organizations 
invariably support each other, no matter what is proposed. 

Orthodox medicine teaches the "carbohydrate" theory 
of what constitutes proper food, and persists in it, even 
when their experiments have proved, long since, that it 
is as false as perjury and a lot more harmful. 

The "American Text-Book of Physiology," authored 
by the professors of physiology in Harvard, Yale, Columbia, 
University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins Medical 
departments, contains the most positive evidence of 
criminality on the part of "regular" practitioners, because 
they cannot be ignorant of their error in the face of the 
following : 

Vol. I, page 277: "We include among carbohydrates 

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the starches, sugars, gums, and the like; they contain no 
nitrogen. Their physiological value lies in the fact that 
they are destroyed in the body and a certain amount of 
energy is thereby liberated. The energy of muscular work 
work and of the heat of the body comes largely from the 
destruction of carbohydrates." 

Yet, on pages 354-355 we find: "The essential value 
of the inorganic salts to the proper nutrition of the body 
does not commonly force itself upon us, since, as a rule, 
we get our proper supply unconsciously with our food, 
without the necessity of making a deliberate selection" (I) 
"Forster fed dogs and pigeons on a diet in which the saline 
constituents had been much reduced, although not com- 
pletely removed. The animals were given proteids, fats 
and carbohydrates, but they soon passed into a moribund 
condition. It seemed, in fact, that the animals died more 
quickly on a diet poor in salts than if they had been entirely 
deprived of food." 

In their classification of "food-stuffs," page 276, they 
put them in the following order, evidently unconsciously 
convicting themselves of the sin of omission in their 
practices : 

"Water; 

"Inorganic Salts; 

"Proteids (nitrogen-containing bodies) ; 

"Albuminoids (a group of bodies resembling proteids, 
but having in some respects, a different nutritive value); 

"Carbohydrates; 

"Fats." 

On page 277: "In the group of fats we include not 
only what is ordinarily understood by the term, but also 
the oils, animal and vegetable, that form such a common 
part of our foods. Fats contain no nitrogen. Their use in 
the body is substantially the same as that of the carbo- 
hydrates. Weight for weight, they are more valuable 
than the the carbohydrates as a source of energy, but the 

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latter are cheaper, more completely digested when fed in 
quantity and more easily destroyed in the body/' 

In their classification of "enzymes," a name given to a 
group of bodies existing in plants and animals, which 
institute and promote normal fermentation in the digestive 
apparatus, they again convict themselves of the crime of 
omission in practice. 

Page 280: "Enzymes are classified according to the 
kind of reaction they produce — namely: 

"1. Proteolytic enzymes, or those acting on proteids, 
converting them to a soluble modification, peptone or 
protose. As examples of this group we have in the animal 
body pepsin, of the gastric juice and t^psin of the pan- 
creatic juice. In plants a similar enzyme is found in the 
pineapple family, (bromelin) and in the papaw (papain). 

"2. Amylolytic enzymes, or those acting upon the 
starches, converting them to a soluble form, sugar or sugar 
and de*xtrin. As examples we have in the animal body 
ptyalin, found in the saliva; amylopsin, found in pancreatic 
juice, and, in the liver, an enzyme capable of converting 
gtycogen into sugar. In plants the best known example 
is diastase, found in germinating seeds, known for a long 
time from the use made of it in the manufacture of beer. 

"3. Fat-splitting enzymes, or those acting upon the 
neutral fats, breaking them up into glycerine and the 
corresponding fatty acids. The best example known is 
steapsin, found in the pancreatic secretion. 

"4. Sugar-splitting enzymes, or those having the 
property of converting the double into the single sugars. 
Two enzymes of this character are found in the small 
intestines of the animal body; they are known as invertase 
and maltase." 

When it is known that in the regular order of digestion, 
water, inorganic salts, proteids and albumins are handled 
altogether in the stomach, save when it is handicapped 
by the presence of the carbohydrates; that the starches 

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are only partly digested in the stomach and the sugars and 
fats are scarcely attacked until they reach the small 
intestines, it should become clear to anyone whose mentality 
is not clouded by sophistry, that such foods as contain 
tissue building material, (which, it is confessed, only the 
first named group do), are the ones which should pre- 
ponderate in food. Yet the old-school theory and practice 
remain just the opposite, insisting that the carbohydrates, 
sugars and fats are the producers of heat and energy; a 
falsehood of the most palpable sort, proved by everj^-day 
observation of fat people and animals, made so from diets 
of starches, sweets and fats — they are almost invariably 
sufferers from heat and cold, are unable to perform labor 
without tiring quickly, exhibit skin eruptions, "gout," 
"apoplexy," ambitions for easy jobs, as office-holders, are 
lazy and not nearly so honest as their leaner fellows. 

We have taken thousands of cases of disorders, pro- 
duced largely by wrong food, with contributing causes 
which are always present, and made new people of them 
in a few -weeks. We reduced Dr. T. C. Seright, of Chats- 
worth, 111., from 269 to 198 pounds in the thirty days from 
August 15, to September 15, 1902, and changed him from 
a weak, nervous person to a strong, happy man. A few 
years later, when I mentioned the case in one of my classes, 
a Kentucky physician-student arose and asked for proofs, 
because I had told the class to not believe anything I 
taught unless I proved it. I responded that if we were 
in Kentucky the shooting would be over and his relatives 
notified; then I began to explain why I was not prepared 
to establish my veracity in that instance, when I was 
attracted by a presence in the open door — it proved to be 
Dr. Seright, whom I supposed was 80 miles away; needless 
to say I called on him for a statement, at the conclusion 
of which I asked my student if he would like to call that 
big fellow a liar. He apologized and the incident was closed. 
The old-school boys teach it is dangerous to take off fat so 

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fast, thus proving they know nothing about the matter 
and do not want to learn. 

On page 364 of the delectable text-book quoted from 
may be found under the heading "Potential Energy of 
Food:" 

"From the standpoint of the law of conservation of 
energy it is easy to understand that the amount of available 
energy in any food may be determined by burning it out- 
side the body and measuring the quanity of heat liberate d." 

If this isn't "bunk" it is most appalling ignorance — 
any person with a little common sense knows there is a 
vast difference between physical and physiological com- 
bustion. But let us take some of their figures and try 
them out, On page 364 they say: 

"Roughly speaking an adult man gives off from his 
body in the course of twenty-four hours about 2,400,000 
calories of heat (1 calorie = the heat necessary to raise 
1 cubic centimeter of water 1° C). This supply of heat 
is derived from the metabolism or physiological oxidation 
of the proteids, the fats and the carbohydrates that we 
take into the body in our food. * * * * According 
to Stohman, 1 gram of beef, deprived of fat equals 5,641 
calories, while 1 gram of veal gives 5,663 calories. For 
muscle extracted with water, Rubner obtained the fol- 
lowing figures: 1 gram = 5,778 calories. The combustion 
equivalent of urea (Rubner) is 2,523 calories. Since 1 
gram of proteid yields about one-third of a gram of urea, 
we should deduct 841 calories from the combustion equiv- 
alent of 1 gram of proteid to get its available energy to 
the body: 5,778-841 =4,937 calories." 

Very well. Now, 2,400,000-7-4,937 = 486 grams or 
a little over one pound avoirdupois (1 pound is 453.5 
grams) of proteids to supply the body with necessary 
energy. But, they say, further: 

"Practically, however, this value has been found too 
high. Direct determinations upon the body in a calori- 

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meter gave to Rubner the following values, which seem 
to be generally adopted by workers in this field: 1 gram 
of proteid equals 4,100 calories; 1 gram of fat equals 9,300 
calories; 1 gram of carbohydrates equals 4,100 calories. 
Weight for weight, fat contains the most energy, and, as we 
know, in cold weather and in cold climates the proportion 
of fat in the food is increased. In dietetics, however, the 
use of fat is limited by the difficulty attending its digestion 
and absorption as compared with the carbohydrates." 

Let us see: 2,400,000 -f- 4, 100 = 585 grams, or 1.3 
pounds of proteids; 2,400,000-^-9,300 = 257 grams, or 
.56 of a pound of fat to sustain an able-bodied man daily. 
The carbohydrates figure the same as the proteids, hence 
if a man eats half a pound of each of the above daily he 
will develop 4,800,000 calories of heat, twice as much as 
he needs, hence he would surely become overheated! Some 
people eat five times the quantity mentioned, hence, 
theoretically, such people ought to blow up! Is it a funny 
proposition to you, reader? It is to me. 

As a matter of fact the whole calorie system is a physio- 
logical fraud, as is readily proved by simply observing fat 
people and animals, as suggested before. It is an egregious 
mistake to assume that "the essential value of the inorganic 
salts to the proper nutrition of the body does not commonly 
force itself upon us," in the light of such statements, 
experiments and figures just given. It is foolish to assert 
that "as a rule, we get our proper supply unconsciously 
in our food, without the necessity of deliberate selection." 

In another chapter will be found a list of the elements 
composing the human body. Of these, iron, potassium, 
sodium, calcium and magnesium are the bases of the 
inorganic salts. (So-called "organic chemistry" is that of 
the carbon compounds). The other body elements, 
phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen 
and nitrogen, are the active principles which act upon the 
metal bases named, forming essential salts, which are 

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utilized in the processes of metabolism. The nitrates and 
phosphates of potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium 
and iron, build bone, muscle, nerve and connective tissue, 
while combinations having the non-metal, carbon, for a 
base, make nothing but load for the digestive apparatus, 
if digested, a load of fat to carry and absorb heat and 
energy, obstruct nervous and vascular circulations and, 
finally, return nothing whatever in the line of energy. 

The carbonates are indigestible as well as non-nutritive, 
if used alone as shown in the experiment quoted, where 
the dogs and birds died quicker than if they had been given 
no food, because they wasted energy in trying to "combust" 
the food which gave no return. Nitrates and phosphates are 
not only necessary for body repairs, but are absolutely 
essential to digestion and absorption, hence we designate 
them as + foods and the carbonaceous ones as — . We 
employ the same signs in subdivisions of other subjects, 
hence they do not always mean foods. 

For convenience in making comparisons we use figures, 
instead of technical symbols, and let 100 per cent, the 
normal daily demand for digestive purposes, be 1,000,000 
units of energy. Practical physiological tests, made 
repeatedly, proved that it takes four times as much energy 
to handle equal amounts of carbohydrates and nitro- 
phosphates; therefore in a quantity equally divided as to 
the + and — we have the ratio 1 to 1, which, in 10 parts, 
is a proportion of 5 to 5. Dividing the 1,000,000 demand 
in the proportions 4/5 to the — and 1/5 to the + gives 
800,000 to the - and 200,000 to the +, or 160,000 per 
part to the — and 40,000 per part to the + . Thus, at a 
ratio of 1 to 1 and a quantity of 10 parts, which may be 
grains, ounces or pounds, we have 
Ratio. Quantity. 
-1.00 -5X160,000 = 800,000 
+ 1.00 -f 5X 40,000 = 200,000 

Total daily demand = 1,000,000 
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As the — foods return nothing, the big duty falls on the 
+ . To return 1,000,000 the -f has to do it at the rate of 
5 for each 1 of its 200,000 drawn. 

One of the waj's in which we proved it does this, or 
better, is that we took cases who were living according to 
the carbohydrate schedule, which is a ratio of 4 parts 
carbohydrates to 1 part nitro-phosphates, and w T ere in a 
bad state of disorder. We put our standard to the test and 
found it thus: 

Ratio. Quantity. 

-4.00 -8.00X160,000 = 1,280,000 

+ 1.00 +2.00 X 40,000 = 80,000 



Total daily demand = 1,360,000 
To return the total makes a demand on the+ of 17 
to each 1 drawn for the nitro-phosphate, which is beyond 
its capacity. We reversed the ratio and prescribed prac- 
tically the same quantity as had been used, and the follow- 
ing shows why we got the results we did : 
Ratio. Quantitjr. 
-1.00 -2.00X160,000 = 320,000 
+4.00 +8.00 X 40,000 = 320,000 



. Total daily demand = 640,000 
With a reproducing capacity of 5 to 1 the + would re- 
turn 1,600,000 daily and with a reduced capacity of only 3 
to 1 it would return 960,000 daily, or 50 percent, more than 
the demand. Our patients recovered so quickly they sur- 
prised even ourselves. Of course we did other things beside 
dieting, but any doctor is supposed to do that. We used 
no drugs of the artificial sort, however, and we only did 
rational things, from which, like our diet, no possible harm 
could ever occur. We win in 100 per cent, of all cases. 
First, we do not accept any who measure beyond the "limit 
angle" of Nature's power to come back; second, the laws 
of Nature always work because we require all patients to 

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pay good fees in advance, as guarantees they will follow 
instructions. 

The foregoing refers exclusively to the ratio of the 
solids in foods. The normal ratio of water to solids is 
2 to 1, which is necessary to solubility for purposes of assim- 
ilation and distribution of the essential elements in the 
solids. Briefly a normal food composition is 66 2/3 per 
cent, water, 16 2/3 per cent. — solids and 16 2/3 per cent. 
+ solids. In the average carbohydrate diet of the public 
(and orthodox doctors) including white flour, dried peas 
and beans, corn, rye, etc., water ranges from 14 to 25 per 
cent. — solids from 40 to 75 per cent., + solids from 3 to 
24 per cent., there is a slow, sometimes, but sure drain on 
the chemical supply which brings trouble sooner or later. 
Of course the deficiency of water is often made up by copious 
draughts thereof with meals, but, in any event there is a 
lack of the elements with which Nature builds tissue, par- 
ticularly- muscle and nerve structures, walls of blood- 
vessels, etc., then there is a dearth of combinations required 
for digestion and the result is an abnormal fermentation, 
with its results, as follows : 

The "carbo-hydrate" foods contain practically none 
of the most important elements: Nitrogen, phosphorus, 
iron, sulphur, chlorine, potassium, sodium, calcium and 
magnesium, nine out of a total of fourteen. They do 
contain starch, sugar, fats and some water, but not enough 
of the latter, which can be added easily, however. Starch 
has the formula CeHioOs with a molecular weight of 162; 
adding water, H 2 with a molecular weight of 18, forms 
glucose, C 6 H 12 6 with a molecular weight of 180. There- 
fore, one ounce of starch, 480 grains, plus the proper 
proportion of water, 53 1 /3 grains, a total of 533 1 /3 grains, 
affords a basis for figures of fact. If absorbed promptly, 
without fermentation, it is of little value as food because 
it lacks the nine important elements named above, and 
instead of forming heat, as has long been taught, it does 

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nothing of the kind, being rather an absorber of heat and 
motive power, a load rather than a help. If fermentation 
occurs, as it often does, it splits into 2C0 2 +2C 2 H 6 OH, 
or carbon dioxide and alcohol, with respective molecular 
weights of 88 and 92, or 48.89 per cent, carbon dioxide 
and 51.11 per cent, alcohol. Therefore, one ounce, 480 
grains, of starch, plus 53 1/3 grains of water, a total of 
533 1/3 grains, yields 272.6 grains of alcohol. Dividing 
this figure by .8 (the specific gravity of alcohol) there are 
340 minims volume. Sixty minims make a fluid drachm, 
hence there are 5.68 fluid drachms or .71 of an ounce of 
alcohol. Dilute to whisky, which is 50 per cent, alcohol, 
this is 1.42 ounces, a pretty big drink for even a "toper." 
It is not uncommon for people to eat 32 ounces a day of 
starchy foods and nearly all of them have "acidity of the 
stomach," which means their distillery is working, so they 
are making anywhere from a few ounces up to 45.44 ounces 
of whisky per day. 

That the effects of the ordinary manner of living are 
bad is thus easily shown, theoretically, and the final proof 
is not only afforded in the "chronic" conditions of millions 
who are not ill enough to seek medical aid, other than 
patent medicines, but in the numerous fads exploited from 
time to time by fakers and by honest but misguided souls, 
who range from the herbiverous to the carniverous, 
including the omniverous who satisify their appetites and 
send for the doctor. 

It should be apparent to even the casual observer that 
no system of living, or of medical practice, which does not 
take into consideration everything pertaining to these 
great subjects, can be anywhere near correct. Our System 
of Mature Medicine is the product of endeavors to profit 
intellectually by the mistakes of others, hence it is the 
most difficult to practice, because we have to contend with 
professional jealously and with habits which are generations 
old. Then it is often difficult to secure the variety in foods 

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which are needed; bath tubs are comparatively few; facil- 
ities for hot water are fewer; people do not want to wear 
glasses or take proper rest. There are so many "cults," 
who propose to "cure" ills of all sorts by punching backs, 
by drugs, by "physical culture," by "Christian" and other 
''sciences," by Turkish baths, hypnotism, etc. The 
"forgiveness of sins" dogma has borne fruit. It is still 
utilized by the Religious Trust, the Medical Trust, the 
Newspaper Trust and the Food Profiteers Trust to keep 
the public filled to redundance with a faith in "authorities" 
which would be sublime were it not so pathetic. The 
"Health" columns of the public press are replete with 
"information" that makes business for the "dope" 
doctors, who originated "patent" medicines by their 
"prescription" methods and who now seek legislation 
to put such competition out of business. The same public 
press echoes and reechoes the cry for "vaccination" and 
serum 'therapy, which are unsound theoretically, criminal 
practically and altogether an experiment. 

The latest jolt given to the faddist was at Camp 
Wheeler, Macon, Ga., shown in a report of George Douglas 
Head, M. D., chief of medical service, base hospital, whose 
story was published in the Journal of the Medical Trust 
May 3, 1919. It describes an "experiment," tried on 
soldiers in that camp during an "epidemic of pneumonia." 
"Two radically different methods were employed," says 
the report. One was in what is termed the "open war 
group," where the out-doors-cold-air fad was practiced in 
966 cases, with a mortality of 13.9 per cent. The other 
was the rational method of warm rooms, comfortable 
surroundings, etc., where, with 435 cases the death rate 
was only 3.2 per cent. It is stated particularly that the 
comparison between the two methods is fair because "the 
epidemic was continuous during the time the study was 
made; the same disease was prevalent, of the same type 
in both groups." What have the "sleeping-porch" faddists 

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to say about it? What have the "health" editors, who 
exploit fads, to say? Why should "scientific" doctors find 
it necessary to experiment*! Doctor Head is a Medical Trust 
doctor, according to the directory published by the Trust; 
he was graduated in 1895 and is still orthodox. His experi- 
ment was certainly a deadly one for orthodoxy. 



In the diet tables which are supplied with each copy of 
this book, Table I gives the percentages and quantities 
in grains, per ounce, avoirdupois, of Carbonates, Nitrates, 
Phosphates and Water; Table II gives, in grains and 
fractions thereof, the amounts of: P. (phosphorous), 
Fe. (iron), S. (sulphur), CI. (chlorine), K. (potassium), 
Na. (sodium), Ca. (calcium), Mg. (magnesium), per ounce, 
avoirdupois. The first four named are active principles, 
(except that iron is sometimes basic), while the last four 
are the bases on which combinations are formed by the 
others, usually associated with nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen 
and fluorine. These combinations, or "salts," act not only 
in the metabolic processes, but generate heat and power 
directly and indirectly, the first about one-ninth to one- 
fifth of the total produced daily and the second (muscular 
activity) develops the remainder. 

A standard, normal diet should be at least two-thirds 
water, one sixth nitro-phosphates and one-sixth carbonates ; 
then, with the liquids taken with meals and between meals 
and other departments of physiology in fairly normal 
conditions, digestion should be complete and the needs of 
the body supplied. It requires considerable figuring to 
arrange the items quantitatively in order to get the 
qualitative proportions and, to practice dietetics as a 
materia medica, requires a training in physical and physio- 
logical chemistry which cannot be acquired from a book. 
The illustrations to follow will show, however, how we can 
utilize all articles of food, without harm and even with 
some benefits. The figures in the Diet Tables are per 

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ounce, hence must be multiplied by the number of ounces 
of each item : 

In Table I, for example, apple is 4 per cent, carbonates, 
and 33 per cent, nitrates and phosphates, with 63 per cent, 
water. The ratio of the -f solids (nitro-phosphates) to 
the — solids (carbonates) is 8 1/4 to 1. Referring to Table 
II, in which the first four columns are the + or active 
principles and the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th columns are the — 
or basic elements, we find by comparing the totals of each,, 
that the ratio of the basic to the active elements present 
is — 3.52 to + 1.00, which is good because the base has to 
carry the combination with nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, 
or fluorine, or several of them — the normal ratio of the 

— to + is about 2 to 1. But apples are not perfect food, 
because they contain no chlorine, which is one of the 
essentials for digestion. Adding salt will overcome that 
deficiency; but there are yet other deficiencies which any 
attempt to explain here would be wasted unless the reader 
be first trained as indicated in the preceding paragraph. 
The only place that training can be had is in our school, 
where practical physiological chemistry has been developed 
in a manner consistent with physical laws. It is a sad 
commentary on the intelligence of those who organized 
the dominant system of practice that they devoted their 
time to developing an artificial materia-medica and neg- 
lected entirely Nature's own, the only true one. 

Apricot, Table I, is 8 per cent, carbonates, 6 per cent, 
nitro-phosphates and 83 per cent, water. The ratio of the- 

— solids dominates, 1 1/3 to 1; but the water is bountiful 
and that helps. Table II shows the base is 3.51 to 1; but 
it is short on chlorine and the total of the elements is onljr 
.4539, while apple totals 4.5701 grains per ounce. 

Remember all of the figures in Table II are extracted 
from the nitrate and phosphate columns of Table I. The 
carbonates yield none of them. 

Asparagus, Table I, is 5.4— to 1-f; but, with, 93.6 per 

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cent, water, it is not bad. Table II shows a base ratio of 
only 1.53, which is not good; yet, if it be eaten with other 
items, the total being so arranged that the combination 
is good, as a whole, the Naturally elastic body chemistry 
will take care of it. 

Beans, (dried), Table I, are 40 per cent, carbonates to 
27.5 per cent, nitro-phosphates, a ratio —1.45 to +1.00, 
with water only 14 per cent., which is a bad combination. 
Table II shows an abundance of elements but a base ratio 
below which is bad. We can only eat beans with benefit 
if they be taken in connection with other items which 
make up their deficiencies. The ratio is found by dividing 
the smaller total into the larger one. In this instance the 
total of active elements is greatest. 

Beets, Table I, are bad in solids, with a — ratio of 3.54 
to 1.00; but the 70 per cent, water helps. In Table II the 
base ratio of 1.60 is not good, and there is no help for it 
but combination with other items. 

Beef, Table I, is good, because the nitro-phosphates 
dominate with a ratio of 1 1 /2 to 1 and the water is about 
normal. Table II offsets the good in one respect, viz.: 
the basic ratio is bad, being only 1 to 1 ; But the quantity 
of elements is good, so all that is necessary to secure the 
benefits is to supply other items with high basic values. 
Common salt, NaCl, adds sodium to the bases and frees 
chlorine to form hydro-chloric acid for digestive purposes. 

Blueberries, Table I, the -fsolids dominating 2.55 to 
1.00 and water high; hence they are good. Table II shows 
a fine base ratio of 3.60 and a liberal supply of elements. 

Blackberries, Table I, show the -f- is 4.5 to 1.00, with 
lots of water; hence good. Table II shows a base ratio of 
3 and plenty of elements. The seeds in berries are aids to 
digestion, mechanically. 

Cabbage, Table I, has a ratio of — 3, with a high 
percentage of water, making it fair. Table II help*, with 
a base ratio of 2, improving it on the whole. 

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Carrots, Table I, are —5.80 to -f 1.00, which is bad; 
with over 82 per cent, water, which helps. Table II shows 
a 3.60 base, which is very good; but there is only a trifle 
over half a grain of elements per ounce, hence it is a light 
weight food. 

Cauliflower, Table I, is good, with a ratio of 1 to 1 solids, 
and 90 per cent, water. But Table II gives only a 1.58 
base; hence it needs to be supplemented with other things 
to increase the base and the water will stand reduction. 

Corn (N), Table I, is bad, with a — ratio of 5 and only 
14 per cent, water, which may be increased, but that 
wouldn't help the other fault, and Table II shows a base 
of only 1.36, which is bad. 

Corn (S), Table I, is good, with a ratio of 1 to 1 solids; 
but it is low in water, which is bad. Table II shows the 
+ elements dominating the base, which is bad. 

Corn (G), Table I, gives a — ratio of 1.71 in the solids, 
but an* abundance of water, which is good. It is low in 
chlorine, by Table II, and the base is lower than the active 
elements; hence the tendency to produce colic, when 
indulged to excess. 

Cheese, Table I, is good, with a -f- ratio of 1.27; and 
not good with only 36.5 per cent, water, which is easily 
increased. Table II shows it to be abundant in salts, with 
a fine base, —3.20. It is one of the best foods there is; 
but it does not follow that cheese alone would be a practical 
diet. This reminds us of the man in a boarding house who 
said he liked prunes for eighty or ninety meals successively, 
but he'd be damned if he wanted them all of the time. 

Celery, Table I, has a —ratio of 1.7, with 75 per cent, 
water.s In salts, Table II, it is better, with a base of 2.76 
and lots of chlorine. 

Cranberry, Table I, with 45 per cent, nitro-phosphates 
and no carbonates is fine; water is almost normal. Table 
II shows it prolific in salts with a base ratio of 2.16, which 
is good. 

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Cherries, Table I, are bad, with a — ratio of 7; and 
the 81.2 per cent, water doesn't offset that. Table II shows 
a poor value in salts, but with a basic ratio of 2.77, which 
is good. It is a peculiarity of fruits, with single seeds, 
that they are poor in salts and carbonates dominate. 

Currants, Table I, show 2.9 per cent. + and no — solids, 
which is good as far as that goes, and there is lots of water. 
But Table II shows the + elements dominate in quantity, 
hence there is liability to be trouble from a deficiency of 
basic material. 

Cocoanut, Table I, is all bad, with a — ratio of 8.3 
and no water. Table II, makes a fairly showing, with a base 
ratio of 3.57; but a comparatively enormous amount 
of energy has to be expended to get little return out of 
such items of food. 

Cucumber, Table I, shows a —ratio ojf nearly 3 to 1; 
but it will be observed it is nearly all water. Table II 
shows the active elements are more numerous than the 
basic, hence it is a bad combination. This is aggravated 
by the fact that this stuff is eaten while it is immature, in 
which condition it is more or less poisonous; much depend- 
ing on who it is in. 

Dates, Table I, are 105 to 1 in favor of the carbonates 
and only 24 per cent, water — more of the single seed 
badness. And this is made worse by Table II, which shows 
a total of only .0526 grains of salts, although the basic ratio 
of 3.53 is good. As a whole there is nothing worth while 
in this item. 

Egg Plant, Table I, is almost balanced in solids, but 
is mostly water. Table II shows it pretty good in salts, 
but with a weak base of 1.58. It is long on phosphorus 
and potassium, which is suggestive. 

Eggs, Table I, are 1.16+, hence good; water is normal, 
which is good. But Table II shows the active elements the 
most numerous, with a large amount of salts, which is bad. 

Figs, Table I, gives carbonates the advantage by nearly 

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7 to 1 and the water is low, all of which is bad. Table II 
shows a base ratio of 6.78, which is good; but the quantity 
of salts is small. Adding plenty of water together with the 
digestive aid of the fine seeds will make an egg-fig com- 
bination all good. 

Fish, Table I, is 20 per cent. +, to no — and 80 per 
cent, water, which is good. Table II discloses an abundance 
of salts but a very low base, only 1.12. Combining it with 
cheese in equal parts would raise the base to 2.16, which 
is fine. There are many reasons why the combination 
would not be advisable as a constant diet. 

Fowl, Table I, gives nitro-phosphates 12.8 to 1 of 
carbonates, which is very good; and the water is bountiful. 
Table II shows a bad base of only 1.29; hence it needs to 
be fed in combinations which will raise the base. It is well 
supplied^with essential elements. Game, as a rule, belongs 
in this class. 

Grapes, Table I, are 5.25+ to 1 — , and well supplied 
with water. Table II shows a good base ratio, 2.83, and 
the seeds are a help to mechanics of digestion. Don't be 
be afraid of getting them into your appendix. 

Grape Fruit, Table I, is 7 good to bad, and normal 
in water. Table II shows a 2.93 base and a liberal supply of 
salts, making it one of the finest as well as one of the most 
delicious of fruits. Many people spoil it with sugar, because 
they are fantical in the belief they know as much about 
foods as anybody can, and they have "God-given tastes" 
to guide them. A little salt not only sweetens them but 
adds to the chlorine, which is a little short in this fruit. 

Gooseberries, Table I, are 4 good to no bad and the 
water is high. Table II shows a base ratio of 2.15, which 
is good. These should be combined with a little salt, as 
they are shy on chlorine. We use them for sauce, at our 
table, as they are palatable and help out other items, both 
in water and basic ratio. 

Ham, Table I, is 1.23 good to 1 bad; but is short on 

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water. This is shown by the thirst which follows eating it. 
Table II shows it to be bad in base deficiency although 
abounding in elements. Combine it with strawberries and 
other extra good items and there will be no thirst after 
eating, thus exploding the old theory that it is the salt in 
the ham that makes the thirst. 

Lentils, Table I, are abundant in solids, but the — 
dominates by 1.4 to 1, and the water is very low, as in 
beans. Table II shows a poor base, 1.26, but a good value 
in salts, if arranged to get them without wasting too much 
energy. 

Lettuce, Table I, is 3 1/3 bad to 1 good, in solids and 
is 88 per cent, water. Table II gives a base ratio of 2.56, 
which is fine. The elemental combinations are good, but 
of limited quantity. 

Lemons, Table I, are 8 good to bad, in solids, with 
plenty of water. Table II shows salts abundant, with a 
base ratio of 2.20, which is good. The juice of one lemon, 
one orange, one grape fruit, some pineapple and straw- 
berries crushed and put in makes what I have named "the 
elixir of life." 

Milk, Table I, is 1 1/3 bad to 1 good, with lots of water. 
In Table II we find it bad in basic properties. This can be 
much improved by letting it stand until the fat arises to 
the surface, then skimming it before feeding. Our patients- 
who are mothers have always made it a practice to feed 
their babies the blue milk and they never have had a case 
of colic among them. Milk is one of the antidotes for 
mercury and potassium poisoning — it is so hungry for 
basic elements that it will tackle anything; the stuff is 
thus held in suspension until it can be recovered by emetics 
or until it passes out by way of the bowels. Don't try to 
handle poison cases without calling a physician, however. 
You can't learn all about doctoring people from this little 
book. 

Mutton, Table I, is 1.4 good to 1 bad, and carries a, 

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normal supply of water. But, like other meat, it is deficient 
in basic ratio, as Table II shows only 1.09. The general 
-salts value is high and by supplying bases it will become 
available. 

Mushrooms, Table I, are 1.5 bad to 1 good, with lots of 
water. Table II shows deficient base, 1.38, adding to the 
evidence of the necessity of combinations in foods for 
general use at meals. We often have cases to whom we 
feed the items individually, as old-school medicine is 
prescribed; but we do it mathematically, not by the guess 
-and guess again methods of the orthodox doctors. . 

Oats, Table I, are bad, 2.75 to 1.00, in solids, with a 
low supply of water. Table II shows them worse, with 
a basic ratio of 1.05. They are advertised as "great 
foods" and sold at fabulous prices to suckers. The orthodox 
doctors prescribe oat-meal soaked in milk to make people 
fat. It will do it, too; provided it is digested; but it takes 
a lot of energy and returns practically nothing, which is 
why the invalids who grow fat, at Battle Creek and other 
* 'health" resorts, do not remain strong when they return 
liome for work. 

Olives, Table I, are 89 bad to 1 point good; they have 
plenty of water; but they are of that single seed family. 
Table II shows a wonderful base ratio, 19 to 1, but an ounce 
only yields .0444 of a grain — provided you get it. They are 
""bum" as food, no matter what the people who have them 
to sell say about the subject. 

Onions, Table I, are 5.2 bad to 1 good, with 93.8 per 
•cent, water. Table II shows they have a good basic ratio, 
2.30; but there is very little of value in them. The salts 
combinations afford an example of the microscopic work- 
ings of natural laws, which are almost Homeopathic in 
their attenuations. 

Oranges, Table I, are 5.1 good to bad, with normal 
water supply. Their basic ratio, Table II, is 4.74, which 
is excellent. 

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Oyster Plant, Table I, is 5 points bad to 1 good, with 
80 per cent, water. Table II gives it a base ration of 3.36, 
which is good. The item can be utilized to advantage in 
combinations. 

Peaches, Table I, are 9.6 bad to 1 good; lots of water; 
another example of the one-seed fruit. Table II shows a 
high base ratio, 3.48, but practically nothing in quantity 
of elements. 

Plums, Table I, are worse, being 89 bad to 1 good; 
71 per cent, water. Table II shows a 3.30 base, but only 
.0127 of a grain quantity. 

Peas (dried), Table I, are 1.58 bad in solids and only 
14.1 per cent, water. Table II shows a 1.36 base ratio, 
but enough salts to be worth arranging a combination 
to secure them. 

Peas (green), Table I, are 2.12 bad to 1 good, but have 
plenty of water. Their base ratio, Table II, is even lower 
than the dried ones and the salts supply is much lower. 

Potatoes (Irish), Table I, are 7 bad to 1 good, but the 
water supply helps. Table II shows a moderate supply of 
salts and a bad base, 1.69. 

Potatoes (sweet), Table I, are over 9 to 1 to the bad 
and are deficient in water. In salts they are practically the 
same as the Irish. We use potatoes, but not often. They 
are fine for animals who have nothing to do but play around 
and digest food. They make fat but not strength. Note 
the difference between the tenderness of fed stock and 
those that graze. 

Pork, Table I, is good, about 1.16, with normal water. 
Table II shows a very low base, 1.05, which is bad. The 
same is true of all meats, but their salts supply is so good 
we go after it by raising the base. 

Parsnips, Table I, are bad, over 4.6 to 1, with 80 per 
cent water. Table II gives a good base, 2.41, with a limited 
salts supply. The combinations are nutritious, however. 

Pineapple, Table I, is 9.8 good to bad, with normal 

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water. Table II gives a fine base ratio of 2.74 and a goodly 
supply of salts, which are easily secured to the system. 

Peanuts, Table I, are bad; 7.6 to 1, with only 10 per 
cent, water. In salts, Table II, the ratio is —1.91 and 
there is a fair supply, but oh! the difficulty attending 
digestion. Some years ago a wise professor of a business 
college in this region declared he had found the real mono- 
diet. He was going to live on peanuts. After much free 
advertising in the gullible press he began one "holy day." 
Thursday he was operated on for "appendicitis." No, 
peanuts are not good for a steady diet. Neither is "peanut 
butter." 

Radish, Table I, is 3.3— to 1+ and over 89 per cent, 
water. It has a 2.39 base according to Table II, and 
contains a fair amount of salts; but it is a distant relative 
of the cucumber and should be taken with moderation. 

Rice (rough), Table I, is 14.64— to 1-f- in solids and 
nearly no water; all of which is very bad. Table II shows 
it still worse, because the + elements dominate the basic 
ones 1.34 to 1. Never use the stuff except in combination 
with very high + items all the way through. It has been 
argued that the Chinese live altogether on rice, which is 
false — and then, look at the Chinese and see the result! 
They live largely on fish and fruit. The fish is of low base, 
but the fruit fixes that; then they spoil it again with rice 
— and look at the Chinese! 

Rice (polished), Table I, is still worse, 34.4— to 1 + , 
and 9 per cent, water. Table II shows the, same bad 
condition as to base as the rough, and much less available 
quantity of salts. 

Raisins are practically the same as grapes, which see. 

Rhubarb, Table I, is 3.25 bad to 1 good, with lots of 
water and lots of waste. Table II gives it a 2.79 base, which 
is good. We use it for sauce, because it is palatable and is 
mostly water. 

Strawberries, Table I, are 45 per cent, good to no bad 

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and with a normal water supply, hence extra good. Table 
II shows a Fine base of 2.83, and an abundance of salts 
readily available, which makes them one of the best of 
items. Some people boast they can't eat them, saying they 
eause a skin eruption. It is merely a sign the body is 
chemically disordered and there is a natural attempt to 
clean house, when the elements are supplied. All such 
■cases who come to us soon learn they can eat all of the 
strawberries they can hold and they will not break out. 
Spinach, Table I, is 1.65 — , with lots of water; and, 
Table II shows, with a 2.76 base; hence it is a good item 
in an occasional combination. It is available all of the 
year and makes good filling. 

Squash, Table I, runs about 4 to 1 to the bad, with 
plenty of water. Table II gives it a 4.44 base, with a very 
low amount of salts. 

Tomato, Table I, runs over 2 bad to 1 good, but with 
lots of water and a Table II base Ratio of 2.51 it makes a 
very desirable food which is relished by nearly everybody. 

Veal, Table I, is good with about 1.4+ to 1 — , and 
normal water supply. Table II shows plenty of salts but 
a bad base ratio, only 1.04, to be overcome before the 
supply is available. 

Whole wheat, Table I, runs over 4 bad to 1 good in 
solids and practically no water. Table II gives a base 
ratio of 1, which is bad. 

White flour, Table I, is 19.8 bad to 1 good, with little 
water. Table II shows a still worse situation, with the 
active elements outnumbering the basic ones, and a total 
salts supply per ounce of only .098 of a grain. An ounce 
of strawberries yields as much essential salts as seven 
loaves of white bread, and no energy is required to get it 
from the strawberries. If you don't believe it keep on 
eating the bread — I'll stick to the berries and other + 
foods, combined with other natural, simple, non-faddish 
things. 

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We will now give some illustrations of combinations 
with reference to balancing them and show what happens 
in balanced and in unbalanced ones: 

PER CENTS. ELEMENTS. 

Article. Oz. C. N-P. W. Active. Basic. 

Apple 4 4 26 63 4.0408 14.2396 

Beef 3 14 21 65 5.5269 5.6115 

Cauliflower 2 4.6 4.6 90 1.3802 2.1858 

Eggs, 2 3 14.9 17.3 67.8 4.8273 4.7346 

Orange 8 0. 5.1 67.2 1.0456 4.9616 

Totals 20 37.5 74.0 353.0 16.8208 gr. 31.7331 gr. 

Final Per Cents 8 16 76. Ratio +1.00 -1.88 

Adding the per cents, and dividing the grand total 
into each total gives the per cents, of the combination. 

Adding the grain totals we have 48.5539 grains of 
essential elements, in addition to the nitrogen, oxygen and 
hydrogen employed in their combinations as salts. 

In the solids we find 16 per cent, -f and 8 per cent. — , 
which is a ratio of 2 to 1. Hence, figuring according to 
the proceeding described early in this chapter, we have: 

Ratio In 10 Parts. 

-1.00 = 3^X160,000 = 533,333^ 

+2.00 -6^X 40,000= 266,666^ 



Total nerve demand = 800,000 

266,666^ X 5 =1 ,333,333^ = Product. 



Difference = 533,333^ = Net gain. 
Now, let us take a combination such as the average 
citizen lives on; or, rather, tries to live on: 

PER CENTS. ELEMENTS. 

Article. Oz. C. N-P. W. Active. Basic. 

White bread.... 4 78.6 4. 14. .1980 .1940 

Potatoes (1).... 4 15.8 2.3 74.8 .7404 1.2568 

Beef 4 14. 21. 65. 7.3692 7.4820 

Butter 2 50. 0. 50 „_ - 

Tomatoes 3 4.2 1.8 94. .5541 1.3923 

Corn (N) 3 67.5 13.4 14. 1.5987 2.1789 

Totals 20 230.1 42.5 311.8 10.4604 gr. 12.5040 gr. 

Final Per Cents. 39 8 53 Ratio +1.00 -1.19 

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Adding the grain totals we have 22.9644 to be com- 
pared with the 48.5539 in the first calculation, plus the 
nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen in the combinations. 

In the solids we find 39 per cent.— and 8 per cent, -f, 
which give a ratio of 4/4 to 1. Figuring as before we have: 

Ratio. In 10 Parts. 

-4# = 8.3 X 160,000 = 1,328,000 

+ 1 = 1.7X 40,000= 68,000 



Total nerve demand =1,396,000 

68,000 X 5 = 340,000 = Product. 



Difference = 1,056,000 = Net loss. 

In the first combination there are 25.5895 more grains 
of essential elements — more than twice as much — not only 
available, but they are appropriated by the system through 
digestion, while the limited amount in the second arrange- 
ment is often lost entirely through lack of digestive 
capacity. We have purposely omitted sugar, pastry, and 
milk, all of which are used to a large extent in ordinary 
households. We use very little of them; hence the com- 
parison is more favorable to the latter list than it would 
be, but it is certainly bad enough to account for the rela- 
tion of food composition to human ills, as a causative factor. 

When a case comes to us, all broken down, or in an 

acute state of suffering, the dietetic part of our procedure is 

something like the following as a daily regimen : 

PER CENTS. ELEMENTS. 

Article. Oz. C. N-P. W. Active. Basic. 

Orange 20 0. 5.1 67.2 2.614 12.404 

Lemon 10 0. 8. 63. 6.571 14.497 

Grape Fruit....30 0. 7. 66. 13.755 40.365 

Pineapple 20 0. 9.8 69.1 12.936 36.778 

Totals 80 0. 29.9 265.3 35.876 104.044 

Final Per Cents 0. 10 90 Ratio -f 1.00 -2.90 

The entire 10 parts solids are -f-, hence: 
10X40,000=400,000 demand. 

400,000X5 = 2,000,000 product. Anet gain of 1,600,000. 

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But, remember, such patients are down-and-outs, 
hence their reproduction must be at a lower rate than 5 to 
1. Suppose it is down to 2 — we are able to figure exactly 
what it is in any case, after we have examined and 
analyzed it. Then, 400,000X2 = 800,000, showing a net 
gain of 400,000 daily. This explains why our patients get 
along so rapidly. Of course we do other things for them 
which are as great improvements over the old, artificial 
procedures; but the diet is our chemical materia medica, 
and, with our methods of utilizing it, we find it works all 
of the time. 

We sometimes indulge in pastry; but we always serve 
it first at a meal, so the digestive combinations get at it 
first; also because the big fault with people generally is 
they eat too much. They fill up on the tasty, heavy 
foods, until they have a big job for the digestive apparatus; 
then they add the pie and cake, cream, etc. By giving 
the fancy stuff first the appetite is partly satisfied and 
there is less danger of overloading. When we have pastry, 
which is largely — , we are careful to follow it with a -f 
combination on the "safety first" plan. 

In cooking we use the least possible amounts of grease 
and sweets. It is all nonsense to say it can't be done. 
We have never had any person about our place who did 
not say we have the best cook and the best tasting food 
they ever ate. 

Our morning repast always find everybody "present" 
with good appetite — because our evening meal is moderate 
in quantity and decidedly -f • Fruit at bedtime promotes 
digestion during sleep and people with coated tongues and 
"dark-brown" tastes in their mouths, from alleged "liver" 
troubles, soon note the disappearance of those unpleasant 
symptoms. Ask the next fifty doctors you meet to let 
you see their tongues — you'll find that according to their 
dogmatic system they all have liver "disease." They 
don't even know enough to take care of themselves. 

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CHAPTER VI. 

Suggestions for Home Treatment of Disorders. 

On the first appearance of a sore throat get busy with 
hot baths, to the sweating point. Put patient in the water 
when it is warm enough to lie in; then turn on the hot 
and let it run, stirring it so the heat will be distributed; 
when the patient complains of it being too hot, shut it off a 
few minutes, then turn on again; give a glass of cold water 
to drink, as it will help bring out the perspiration. When 
beads of sweat stand out on forehead turn on the cold water 
and let it run, distributing it by stirring as before, until the 
bath is quite cool; this will prevent sweating in bed. Gargle 
with strong salt water and feed nothing but fruit juices, 
such as lemon, orange, grape-fruit, pineapple, fresh berries in 
season, for a few days; get the bowels open early and keep 
patient quiet until all symptoms are gone. We are not 
strong on the "contagion" idea; but as many others are, 
and as there is chance of infection, no child should be sent 
to school with a sore throat. 

The same treatment and general principles apply 
equally to colds in the head, to lagrippe, "flu," pneumonia, 
all fevers and pains, even to those suggestive of "appendi- 
citis." No possible harm can come from it and many lives 
may be saved, beside saving doctors and nurses bills. 

In cases of accident with head injuries, the hot baths 
with cold water applications to the head after the body is 
well heated and relaxed, will abort possible concussion of 
the brain. After such baths if the patient is sleepy permit 
a half hour's sleep, then awaken to see if the mind is clear; 
if not give more baths and send for a physician. 

There is no fixed temperature f6r hot baths; some 
people require them hotter than others do to get the same 

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effects. All we want is relaxation, and that is apparent 
when there is sweating. Some oppose hot baths, saying 
they are weakening. That is nonsense. I spill a dash of 
cold water on the backs of such complainers and they at 
once exhibit vigor enough to jump out of the tub. Some 
faint in the bath, but that is from fright. 

In cases of injuries where the skin is broken, a nail is 
run in the foot, for example, use spirits of turpentine 
instead of water to cleanse, injecting it into the wound, 
where there is no membrane; then give hot baths as fre- 
quently as may be necessary to prevent complications, 
which will be indicated by severe pains. In one instance, 
when I struck my hand on a piece of metal which pene- 
trated a quarter of an inch, shooting pains in elbow and 
shoulder began in about an hour; within the next 60 hours 
I took 28 boil-outs, each followed by cold water applied 
to shoulder and arm. At the end of the period I was all 
right and the wound was healed. Turpentine does not 
hurt like either hot or cold water; it is a perfect antiseptic 
and promotes the reunion of nerves, making the healing 
process more rapid. 

For boils and skin eruptions of all kinds, even to small- 
pox, erysipelas, measles, etc., the hot baths, made quite 
salty, with opening of the bowels and the effective diet of 
fruit juices, plus rest and sleep, will often suffice to effect 
perfect restoration to health. 

The oft-asked question: "How often should baths be 
repeated?" is answered: Use common sense; when the 
symptoms return repeat the dose; that is what the drug 
doctor does, isn't it? Sometimes in pneumonia, after we 
have reduced the temperature to normal in a few minutes 
and have put our patients to bed with a cold, salt-water 
soaked bath towel on the chest, and all is well, the fever 
returns in an hour or two. This tells us we did not get 
complete relaxation, so we go after it again. 

All enteric inflammations, including "typhoid" fever, 

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should be gone after with the baths, etc., no matter if the 
patient is in a state of unconsciousness. The employment 
of cold wet sheets is a crime, contrary to reason, and often 
fraught with fatal results. 

Rheumatism, of all kinds, will be relieved by the baths 
and diet; but the inflammatory variety needs much more 
than home treatment, dietetically, while the others often 
need mechanical treatment not possible at home. 

Ear-ache and other children's exhibits will be relieved 
speedily by baths; but such symptoms often mean general 
disorder of the body chemistry, hence competent specialists 
should be consulted. Catarrhal conditions are common 
and nasal adenoids, enlarged tonsils, etc., may result if not 
attended to in a general way. Operations are dangerous, 
usually unnecessary, and should be avoided. A child has 
the right to be well cared for until it is able and learns how 
to take care of itself. This book is written for children 
as well as for adults. 

For the pains attending menstruation take hot baths. 
All talk of it being dangerous belongs to the days before 
there were steam heat and warm rooms. Our clients of 
this class always take the baths every night during their 
periods, as a mere matter of cleanliness. We even give 
hot baths to arrest flooding — the principle involved 
is that by relaxing the vaso-motor nerves the blood vessels 
of the entire body dilate, thus relieving pressure and the 
flooding ceases. "Scientific" "regular" doctors use cold 
packs and tampons (plugs), and lose their patients often. 
We would employ the same treatment even in post-partum 
hemorrhages. 

Turkish baths, cabinet baths, shower baths, cold plunges 
and other strenuous methods may not harm the strong; 
but thejr never did any good. They are on a par with 
physical exercise for the generally debilitated. 

As a general proposition hot baths and rest, with 
strictly nitro-phosphatic food, are indicated whenever there 

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are symptoms of nervous irritation, whether due to mental, 
physiological or physical causes. And many causes of 
debility and collapse will be helped by the same tactics — 
none can be injured by them. We have a case now, with 
spinal curvature from one accident and a history of paraly- 
sis for a year from another fall. She had been on a decline 
for two years partially recovering from the paralytic stroke, 
and when she came to us she could not walk alone. After 
four months under our rational methods, including a hot 
bath every night, she is able to go as she pleases, play the 
piano an hour without tiring, has gained one-fifth in weight 
and has comparatively normal complexion. Hers was a 
case which the average orthodox doctor would call "per- 



nicious anaemia." 



Acidity of the stomach is not, as is generally believed, 
too much acid. It is merely the wrong kind. It is carbonic 
acid g^s, developed from too much carbohydrate food. 
" Regular" doctors are as ignorant as laymen in this partic- 
ular. They order abstinence from acid foods, when that 
is just what is needed. Normal digestion is fermentation 
produced by the action of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, 
phosphorus, sulphur, chlorine and iron, on the metal bases. 
Abnormal digestion, from chemical causes, is produced by 
a substitution of carbon for the metallic elements. If the 
attack exhibits with intense gastric pains, a level teaspoon- 
ful of common salt, dry on the tongue, with a glass of water 
to wash it down, will give almost instant relief. Then a 
hot bath and modest eating of +foods, indicated by the 
diet charts, will prevent the possibility of a return of 
trouble. Do not acquire the notion that you are warranted 
in eating anything you please, and taking salt. That 
would be foolish and dangerous. Do not follow a dose of 
salt too quickly with strong acid, such as lemon juice. It 
might do no harm; then it might cause salivation. 

Amenorrhoea, absence of the menstrual function, at 

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the age when it should exhibit, is a forerunner of that form 
of general debility which has been called "anaemia and 
chlorosis'' by; our "scientific" friends, the "regulars." 
The hot baths, proper food, out-door exercise of a mild 
nature, with correction of the eye errors, will do more in a 
couple of months than all the "dope" or fads of orthodox 
medicine would fail to accomplish in as many years. 

Aphthae, sore mouth, from indigestion; exhibits white 
blisters on and under the tongues of small children; in older 
people the tongue is badly coated, cracked, and the gums 
are sore. Get the bowels open; reform the eating habits; 
wash thoroughly with strong salt water. Teach the children 
the value and politeness of the tooth-brush habit. 

Apoplexy, cerebral congestion, with, sometimes, hemor- 
rhage, when it is usually fatal. Peculiar to fat people who 
are always deficient in elasticity and strength of the muscu- 
lar portions of the vascular walls. There is invariably a 
history of carbohydrates, sugars and fats, with, often a 
a mental know-it-all-about-that-food-business attitude, 
which prevents the possibility of any self-respecting 
Neurologist accepting their cases. They are often willing 
to "give us a trial" after they have had a close call for their 
lives; but we rarely take them then, as our facilities for 
measuring conditions and prospects are too accurate. Some 
years ago a fat, joshing doctor, from Sioux City, Iowa, 
visited our school with another physician who was a student. 
After half a day of exhibiting good-natured skepticism, 
he asked if I would like to make a clinic of him. I replied 
I didn't need to make an examination; that the signs were 
too positive; that he would not live three years and that 
he would die of Apoplexy, because his condition headed 
that way and his temperament was such that he would not 
accept and follow rational advice. He very obligingly 
died as promised, in about two and one-half years. 

Arterio-sclerosis, hardening of the arteries, is mostly 
"bunk." It belongs in the same category with the current 

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fad of " blood-pressure." Why, my friends, if you didn't 
have blood-pressure you would not survive long. We have 
had all sorts of cases of both conditions and never had any 
difficulty in getting good results speedily; provided, of 
course, there were no other complications; but even then 
we get there eventually, if we take the case. It is a matter 
of baths, diet, manipulation, exercise, mental training, etc. 
Asthma, hay-fever, with the trifling difference that 
when the eyes are not involved it is the former. In either 
event breathing is difficult and there is general congestion 
of blood-vessels, proving nervous irritation. The fact that it 
appears at certain periods of the year in most victims has 
deceived doctors and laymen alike. The "regular," 
"scientific" chaps, like Doc Evans, the joke of a "health" 
editor of the Chicago Tribune, exploit "pollen extracts for 
testing purposes are now available. Your physician can 
use these to discover which pollen causes your trouble; 
after which you can be vaccinated against the offending 
pollen." But, Doc isn't particular, for he adds: "If this is 
not available for you, take the chloride of calcium." They 
remind me of a story of one of their sort, who, on visiting 
a child in a state of coma, gave some medicine, and when 
asked what he did it for, replied: "that will throw it into 
fits; I am hell on fits." Don't pay any attention to "health" 
editors; they are, almost invariably, doctors who couldn't 
make honest livings practicing medicine, so they took to 
teaching the public to indulge in fads. They and "health" 
officials are all in the same class, except that the officials 
turn their crooked talents to greater pecuniary advantage. 
Get busy with the baths, foods, etc., but, as a rule, there 
are complications of a systemic nature which need the care 
of a Neurologist, who is familiar with our methods in finer 
details than could be taught in a book. Your home treat- 
ment will put the "pollen" devotees to flight in short order. 
When Dr. William L. Black, of our faculty, came to us in 
1907, July 4, he had been afflicted with hay-fever for 

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twenty years. He had been doped and "educated" in old 
schools until he was discouraged, and had acquired the 
opium-cocaine habit under the practices and teachings 
of the "regular," including the years at the University of 
Pennsylvania, medical department. He exhibited the 
hay-fever and the habits during August. I began on him 
and in a week the asthma was gone; it has never returned. 
The dope habit was harder to handle; but with his co- 
operation we conquered that and he has developed into 
one of the most valuable teachers there are to be found. 
No patient of ours ever acquires any save Natural habits — ■ 
we teach some that the majority do not know exist. 

Biliousness, a form of indigestion exhibiting a sallow 
complexion, loss of appetite ("anorexia"), coated tongue, 
I recall a class incident of years ago: when I made the 
statement that any person under six feet tall who weighs 
over 200 pounds is sick, a physician student, rather in- 
dignantly, declared he was under six feet, weighed 226 
and was never sick in his life. Shortly afterward I asked 
him what he would say if a patient came to him com- 
plaining and examination showed a tongue coated very 
thickly with yellow, and a few other symptoms such as 
are usually found with it. He replied he would pronounce 
it a disordered liver. Other students were called before 
him and he was asked to stick out his talker, when he 
exhibited a beautiful case of "liver" trouble. He took the 
illustration good-naturedly and put himself on our diet, 
with the result that in a few weeks he was a new man and 
weighed only 180. Incidentally he learned that a coated 
tongue does not mean liver trouble. It does mean that the 
lymphatic system is clogged and the coating is one of 
the automatic symptoms Nature has provided that we 
may take heed timely and save distress and expense. The 
doctor has never practiced "regular" medicine since he left 
us, about fifteen years ago. 

Breath, (fetid), is one of the guides to conditions, 

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habits, etc., it tells us the variety of indigestion, differ- 
entiates catarrh, bad teeth, cigarettes, whisky, tobacco 
and drugs. Nearly every person has more or less indi- 
gestion, hence the breath is correspondingly unpleasant. 
A small lump of salt, say the size of a cranberry, taken 
with water to wash it down, just before going into company, 
will be found of value; but if proper care is taken in the 
matter of eating, etc., the breath will be normal and never 
unpleasant. 

Bronchitis, inflammation of the mucus membrane of 
the windpipe and bronchial tubes, has the duality in cause 
comprising systemic disorder primarily, with exposure to 
sudden climatic changes as the immediate and secondary 
one. We have proved this abundantly by taking "chronic" 
and "incurable" cases, following treatment for the acute 
exhibit by a methodical general overhauling, chemically 
and mechanically, and the exhibit had not recurred many 
years afterward, when it had been periodical, irregularly, 
before. 

Calcareous deposits range from the amyloids of the 
lymphatics and connective tissue to the stones which 
form in the liver and kidneys. They are products of 
carbohydrate living; their exhibits vary from "rheu- 
matism" to those requiring operation on the organs named. 
It is not a matter of record that any operator ever told his 
patient to cease wrong living. There are two possible 
reasons for this: (a) the doctor didn't know the cause, 
(b) he saw more operations by keeping still. That this is 
not a libelous or unfair statement may be learned by 
observation and intimate acquaintance with the "regular" 
fraternity, one of whom is quoted in a recent number of the 
Literary Digest, May 17, 1919. He read a paper in his 
medical club at Youngstown, Ohio, and it was printed in a 
medical journal, thence to the public. Among other things 
he said in arguing for "socialized medicine," that is a class 
supported by the state: "A few are good collectors and 

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couple a little business acumen with their pills and powders, 
and they prosper in a measure. Some few add a touch of 
avarice and duplicity, make twice or thrice more calls 
than necessary, where the pay is good, advise unnecessary 
treatments and operations, have trade arrangements with 
specialists and surgeons, as well as other ways of swelling 
the income. Others, bolder, take up all the surgical work 
they can get, removing tonsils, adenoids, appendixes, and 
now and then an ovary, or do other things they would not 
do but for the money motive." As a final touch he adds: 
"I say to you, in the face of all of our medical laws, medical 
codes of ethics and scientific attainments, it is a system of 
dog eat dog." Home treatment for calcareous deposits 
would be ineffective because of the complication of causes. 

Catarrh, nasal, faucial, aural, gastric, etc., mean need 
for. not only local but general, systemic, treatment. The 
baths and dietary suggested in the first paragraphs will 
help a lot but each case needs to be under the care of one 
who has learned the details in college. Snuffing salt-water 
is better than douches or inhalants, for the nose; pouring it 
into the ears is better than using a syringe; but there is 
nothing among ills that needs professional attention more 
than catarrh. Our patients not only get well of the several 
varieties, but they learn how to keep themselves well in 
that respect forever after. 

Chorea, St. Vitus' dance, is a nervous exhibit, often 
due, primarily, to nerve strain from uncorrected eyes, 
with contributing causes, too numerous to attempt to 
describe here. Home treatment is of little use until a case 
has been overhauled in a sanatarium where no drugs are 
employed. The dope used on such cases is always del- 
eterious mentally and worthless physiologically. See 
epilepsy. 

Conjunctivitis, external eye inflammation, ranging 
from simple congestion through successive stages, sup- 
puration, granulation, ulceration, and possible scars which, 

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covering the pupillary space, cause blindness. Hot baths, 
followed by cold-salt-water applications and a visit to a 
competent Ophthalmologist are the rational procedure, 
and it means wear glasses all of the time. It is in place here 
to remark that anyone, under 45 years of age who needs 
glasses at all should wear them constantly in order to get 
any benefits worth mentioning. The doctor who pre- 
scribes bi-focal lenses earlier than about the 45th year is a 
chump. He doesn't know his business. This is a matter 
upon which I speak mathematically. 

Constipation, movement of the bowels at long intervals, 
is never present without indigestion; but indigestion may 
be experienced with ordinary or even free movements of 
the bowels. Some of the most dangerous cases of indigestion 
are those associated with diarrhoea. It is a very common 
ailment, and is, probably, the most neglected one. Reason- 
able attention to the selection of foods according to our 
dietary 'system, coupled with other hygienic suggestions, 
will soon show appreciable effects. 

Debility may be a normal condition — in the aged. In 
all other instances it is pathological. Its causes are 
many combinations from the ten groups, enumerated in 
another chapter. It should be understood by all that 
finally all ills are placed in one of two classes: One is 
hypernormal; the other, subnormal. All who are in the 
first or + class are comparatively easy for Neurologists, 
although they often puzzle all other doctors. Those who 
are in the second, or — class require patience as well as 
skill. Debility, of course, is — . Anaemia, neurasthenia, 
melancholy, lassitude, and a general woe-be-gone expres- 
sion, with grouchiness or hopelessness, are the obstacles 
we have to contend with. Such cases are worth more to 
handle, not only so far as cost of handling is concerned, 
but also from the standpoint of benefits received by patients. 
They are beyond home treatment and must go away from 
home conditions to be treated successfully. 

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Corns, and callouses, sandpaper and get correct shoes. 

Diabetes, a condition of general obstruction systemi- 
cally. Found often in short, stout people with well- 
established eat habits, of the sweets and starches, with 
contributing causative factors, one of which is mental 
indifference to apparent conditions until it is too late to 
do any good. A home regimen would not work; such 
people have to be bossed. This disorder differs from 
Bright's disease in being obstructive, clogging, while the 
latter is simply malignant toxaemia (blood-poison). 

Diarrhoea, dysentery, flux, etc v may be arrested 
mechanically very quickly in nearly all cases. Seat the 
patient on a low stool and sit on a chair behind, with your 
knees in the small of the back. Catch under the arms, 
lean back and pull steadily until patient complains of 
hurting; then ease up a little and rock side wise gently, 
patient's head lying back on your shoulder; hold steady 
and still with slight pressure for a minute or two, then let 
there be rest and quiet for half an hour or longer; followed 
by a big glass full of fruit juice and a steady diet of the 
same for a few days. If there are other symptoms they 
must be accorded recognition. I have fixed second-summer 
babies in two minutes when they had been given up to 
die by orthodox doctors, who afterwards gave their dope 
the credit, because they didn't know I had touched the 
cases. I merely slipped my hand under the little things 
and, doubling up my fist, put the pressure where it was 
needed. 

Diphtheria. See the first paragraph of this chapter 
and get busy. 

Dropsy, an infiltration of lymph into the tissues, from 
weakness of the walls of the lymph and blood vessels. A 
long, tedious job to correct, and, as a rule, unreliable 
patients, temperamentally. See the description of our 
Neurometric method of analysis, in another chapter. 

Dysmenorrhoea, painful menstruation, has puzzled the 

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orthodox doctors since there was such. Our graduates in 
Ophthalmology have relieved permanently, during the 
past 25 years, more cases than all the drug doctors in 
history ever did or ever will, unless they change their 
tactics. For temporary relief from convulsions or dis- 
tressing pains take hot baths; but for final relief see a real 
Ophthalmologist — one with a McCormick diploma. 

Dyspepsia, chronic indigestion, mental physiological. 
Symptoms, religious fervor; grouchy at home; pleasant 
with strangers; hypocritical on general principals; bad 
disposition and worse temperaments. No case for home 
treatment, unless it be with a stuffed club. They usually 
have catarrhal and other complications. The worst feature 
of such is, they are able to be about causing trouble nearly 
all of the time. They are easy for us because they learn 
right at the beginning that we are onto them and when we 
make them put up a substantial fee in advance they come 
to the line like little ladies and gentlemen. We have 
actually put them in a laughing humor the first week. Of 
course they back-slide some because they can't quit their 
religious habits all at once; but when they learn there is no 
forgiveness for it, that the unpleasant results follow "as 
the night the day," they come out all right. 

Earache; give hot baths for general relaxation, work 
the ears gently and pour water into them until a roaring 
sound is heard; empty it and repeat several times, then put 
in a drop of warm oil and a bit of cotton, the latter being 
removed in half an hour. Continue the baths daily and 
keep on a rational diet until all symptoms disappear. 

Emphysema, is asthma, which see. 

Enteritis, inflammation of intestines, includes typhoid, 
yellow and all other intestinal "diseases," also peritonitis, 
"appendicitis," etc., Give hot baths and get the bowels 
open. In "appendicitis," which is a telescoping of the 
ileum into the caecum, (small intestine into the colon), 
there is often much pain, same as in hernia, and nearly 

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always much gas in the intestines, causing abdominal 
distension; put a tablespoonful of spirits turpentine into 
a two-quart or three-quart bag of hot water and use as a 
rectal douche, just before putting into bath, or, afterward, 
if the patient is unruly. After the bath lay on left side — 
may be done in the bath — and manipulate the bowels 
gently to relieve the telescoping; then see that it does not 
occur again, by keeping the bowels open and feeding on 
fruit juices for two weeks, giving all patient wants; the 
more the better. Positive orders to keep quiet, in bed, 
must be rigidly enforced. Operation is not necessary in 
one case in a hundred. 

Epilepsy, a disorder, usually congenital, primarily, 
aggravated by training and living. Eye strain is often an 
important factor, but incapacity for digestion is the direct 
cause of seizures, coupled with fits of temper or other mental 
excitement. The old-school iodides and bromides are 
worse than no treatment whatever and have rendered 
many incurable by reducing mental balance to almost an 
infantile stage. Our process is one of chemical regeneration, 
mental training and rigid discipline. It takes months to 
restore Nature's ascendancy, and we only accept those 
whose mentalities have not been injured by medication, 
which is illogical and harmful. We require substantial 
fees in advance, and take no cases unless our examination 
and analysis give promise of the very best results. It is 
not a condition for home treatment, except that very 
young people, say from five to ten years, may be handled 
at home under instruction. A child addicted to bed- 
wetting is a candidate for epilepsy; one spoiled by indulgent 
parents until it exhibits uncontrollable temper is also 
headed for trouble. 

Epistaxis, nose-bleed, is an indication of weak vascular 
walls and needs plenty of open air, little close application, 
correction of eyes and eating habits. A hot bath will stop 
excessive bleeding, but must not be regarded as a "cure" 

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and the real causes neglected. Such cases are of the 
"apoplexy" or meningitis class and require general recon- 
struction. 

Glandular enlargement, of the neck, armpits, groins, 
or elsewhere, indicate systemic conditions needing general 
overhauling. They presage goitre, and a variety of dis- 
orders, which only a thorough analysis, after personal exam- 
ination, can determine. 

Hypochondria and other mental exhibits are often 
products of physiological derangements, the correction 
of which will restore normal mental balance. If the public 
would only realize that procrastination is not only the 
"thief of time" but something more dangerous, and would 
consult a reliable doctor, while conditions are fairly good, 
much unnecessary suffering would be avoided. The 
general* unreliability of "regular" doctors is so well-known 
that it is a national disgrace. One way to test a doctor is 
to ask him what he thinks of his competitor, as a doctor. 
If he "knocks," don't trust him. We are staunch advocates 
of medical freedom for the public; we believe in educating 
the public; we have no complaints against individual 
doctors, until they expose their crookedness, when we let 
loose; but we claim it an inherent right to criticize systems 
and alleged systems of practice. 

Hysteria is a condition opposite to hypochondria and 
is an easier class of cases to handle, because many of them 
are physiologically in fair condition, but are the victims 
of eye strain, habits and fear. 

Impotence is a product of ignorance or wilfull mis- 
conduct. It is not amenable to home treatment and is 
difficult for the skilled physician. Mental conditions are 
always involved and victims have neglected themselves 
so long that the chances are against them. 

Insomnia is inability to sleep. It may be temporary 
from indigestion; but when it becomes a habit it is annoying 
and debilitating. Hot baths, with proper foods, are 

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usually sufficient to restore normal sleeping capacity. 
If they fail it means there are complications needing 
professional attention. 

Intussusception, telescoping of the bowels at the 
ileo-caecal valve, commonly called "appendicitis," which 
is a wilful lie, intended to frighten people into operative 
procedures, has already been mentioned. 

Lumbago, pain in the small of the back, is often caused 
by slightly displaced vertebrae. "Regular," "scientific" 
doctors ridicule the idea, thus proving they do not know 
their anatomy as they should. It is this ignorance and 
insolence that has made work for "chiros" and "osteos" 
who are all half-baked professional people, but they make 
good sometimes where the others have failed — then the 
"regulars" go to the legislatures for "laws" to stop such 
competition. Take hot baths at home, use plenty of good 
foods, as per diet charts, have your eyes looked after by a 
competent ophthalmologist, and you will probably need 
nothing else. If the pain still continues, it means a systemic 
disorder that requires prompt attention, or it may mean 
a slipped vertebra. 

Mania should always be treated with hot baths. It is 
an intense spasm of the nervous system, and while the 
baths may not be sufficient to break down the exhibit, they 
give some relief and proper treatment will restore the 
subject to normal. Professional service should be called 
as early as possible. 

Marasmus, pernicious anaemia and neurasthenia, in 
short, general debility of an exaggerated type. Home 
treatment according to the following will do more good 
than all the old-school treatments ever devised: First, give 
hot baths every night; second, feed strictly on nitro- 
phosphatic food with the carbonates excluded entirely; 
this shuts out bread and many vegetables, but there is 
plenty of the proper sort of food and it should be fed in 
quantities; as much as half a dozen grape fruits, a dozen 

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oranges, a few lemons and part of a pineapple daily is an 
ordinary ration. Only the juices should be employed; they 
are practically self-digesting and the patient will gain 
right from the start. We had one case of a man 70 years 
old with weight reduced from 160 to 90 pounds and he was 
so weak he could neither walk or talk. In ten weeks we 
had him walking everywhere he pleased, as much as a mile 
at a time, his voice was strong and he gained 15 pounds. 
Younger people yield more readily; but that is pretty quick 
work. 

Menorrhagia, flooding at the catamenial period, has 
been mentioned in another place, but, for convenience, we 
repeat here: Boil them, same as for dysmenorrhoea; then 
put on rational diet, have eyes corrected and built up the 
nerve supply. 

Morning sickness, in pregnancy is entirely needless; 
it is not due to the pregnancy, but to a combination of 
causes, chief of which is defective eyes; next is wrong 
living. Such cases need Neurological care and advice in 
order to develop healthy children and to deliver them 
without pain or fever. 

Myalgia means muscle pain, and there is no such thing ; 
it is all nerve pain, for that is the only channel through 
which we feel. It is an example of old school nomenclature, 
however, which proves they do not even know how to 
employ the English language. Baths and manipulation 
may remove the causes; but there may be chemical dis- 
orders needing professional service, which will be indicated 
by the failure of the home work. 

Nephritis is a name for kidney trouble, sometimes 
called "Bright's disease. " It may or may not be accom- 
panied by pains in the back. If it is true nephritis it will 
exhibit in a diminution in vision and in aversion to light 
very early. This is not a class of cases to be undertaken at 
at home, even by practitioners. They must be where they 
can have constant attention until out of danger. They are 

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in danger when they are still able to get around and attend 
to business. 

Neuralgia is nerve pain; hence all pain is neuralgia; 
but by common consent and usage, only the shooting pains 
are classed as such. Just why people delay having a general 
analysis for such symptoms, except it be the old-school 
failures in treatment, is more than we can understand. 
Take some baths and try living correctly as to food, etc., 
and if you do not get all right in a few days consult a 
Neurologist. Our graduates are not in the "cult" or 
"sectarian" class. Our school is the only non-sectarian 
school in existence. We have nothing in common with 
"regulars" or the "osteos," "chiros," "naturopaths," 
"christian science" or other fads, drug or drugless. We are 
not in the one-idea or "cure" classes. We try to be honest 
with the public and teach it to be honest with itself. We 
do not solicit students or patients. We only accept those 
who come up to our requirements, and we are pretty 
strict, because people have been spoiled so that they 
cannot imagine anyone can mean exactly what he says, 
and they try all sorts of interpretations of our announce- 
ments. It doesn't go with us for a minute. We teach the 
laws of Nature as dug out by us, with the aid and benefit 
of the diggings of others in the past. St. Paul is said to 
have declared he could learn from Greek or barbarian. We 
have done that very thing. We have frequently come in 
contact with people who are in good standing in the educa- 
tional world who did not know the origin of the word 
"alphabet;" they insisted there are four grand divisions of 
arithmetic, when there are only two, addition and sub- 
traction; multiplication is a short method of addition and 
division a short method of subtraction. We teach and 
practice on these principles. No one gets credit in our 
school save for the work he does in it. We have reduced 
the length of terms to the minimum and we do more work 
in the time specified than any old school does in seven 

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or thirteen years. We have been. the subjects of sneaking 
slander for 25 years but we have gone ahead and won all 
of the time. If the slanderers were as eager to learn as 
they are to slander they would be paragons of knowledge. 

Nymphomania is abnormal sex desire; and there is 
more of this than is generally believed. All of such cases 
need the care of a doctor who will not attempt to "cure" it. 
It doesn't need curing. It needs education. Such people 
are usually above the average intellectually; hence heed 
education along rational lines. Neurologists are prepared 
by us to give the information and in no instance is there any 
charge for it. The matter is one which has been abused by 
mercenaries and prudes. Our information is neither 
"obscene," "immoral/' or embarrassing to anyone. It is 
for those who need and will appreciate it. The "curious" 
and "lewd" need not apply. We spot them in a minute. 
Satyriasis is the term applied to males in this class. As a 
rule it is an acquired state with them, while in the female 
it is a natural physiological exhibit, but indicates there is 
nerve strain through the eyes and elsewhere, which needs 
correction and with mental counsel the use of drugs or the 
resort to operation is avoided. 

Paralysis is in the — class of cases, and is a symptom 
of neglect of other warnings. Only long time and patient 
work by a professional person will accomplish anything and 
we do not promise much, although we often have some 
delightful surprises as results of our fidelity and the patient's 
cooperation in conforming to Nature's laws as we have 
learned them. 

Phthisis. See Tuberculosis. 

Pneumonia. See first paragraph of this chapter. 

Quinsy. Treat same as pneumonia. 

Rheumatism requires systematic treatment, profession- 
ally. There are too many complications of causes to 
attempt home treatment, save for temporary relief. 
Sciatica, for example, is one form which is often due to 

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displaced vertebrae or to obstructions in the hip joint. It 
is possible to fix it in one minute. 

Sex ills and skin eruptions are so multitudinous that 
other than professional treatment is bad, because delay- 
only adds to complications which may be disastrous. We 
have "formularys," old-school, containing over 200 pre- 
scriptions for drug combinations for skin "diseases/ ' which 
is good evidence of fact their practice is all experimental. 

The facts that medicine and religion are split up into 
dogmatic schools and associations; that they are intolerant 
of each other; that they seek legislation to gain advantages; 
that they substitute artificial ordinances for Natural laws; 
that they have failed to make good on their propositions; 
should be sufficient evidence to teach the thinking public 
to give them all the go-by. 

We recognize no "authority' ' save Mathematics, which 
is the Natural law of order, out of which all principles of 
living must come. The vaunted "education" of our time 
is an arrant humbug. Erudition has made fools of many, 
which statement recalls the remark of a practical army 
officer, who in addressing a lot of recruits from a college, 
said: "Gentlemen, I am glad to see you here; I know your 
type; I can tell a college man as far as I can see him — but 
I can't tell him much." The boys were about to cheer, but 
the last six words cut it short. If every child be taught how 
to read, write, spell, punctuate and paragraph correctly, 
then be trained in the principles of arithmetic, followed by 
the study of geography and history; and have it all done 
at the age of sixteen, after which be given practical duties 
where what has been learned may be applied intelligently, 
there would never be any danger from bolshevism or 
other forms of unionism in this whole world. People would 
vie with other to accomplish good for all, instead of striving 
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CHAPTER VII. 
Composition of Food for Thought 

King Solomon said: "The love of money is the root of 
all evil." 

Sol. was regarded as the wisest man of his time; but he 
was mistaken in his "diagnosis." 

Love of power appears, from history and current events, 
to be the chief weakness of humanity. 

Elect a man road supervisor and he at once concludes 
he should be county commissioner. Make him mayor of a 
city and lie aspires to the presidency of the country. Choose 
him for president and he wants to be chief of a league of 
nations. Each and all of them will resort to the tactics of 
a thug to achieve his ambition. 

But there are yet greater personages than even the 
highest official, viz. : Those who make him — and break him. 
Money is an essential to the attainment of power; but it is 
secondary in the final analysis. Superstition and credulity 
are the primary necessities to insure success in the ma- 
neuvres to control the destinies of the people. 

Religion and medicine paved the way for politics and 
profiteers. The world war has taught the people neither 
the futility of prayer nor idiocy of war. All ancient and 
modern philosophers have been and are arrayed against 
both. The first on the ground that if there is an omnipo- 
tent, all-wise and all-powerful personal creator, prayer to 
him, her or it, is impudent and unworthy of notice; the 
second because wars, instead of settling matters, have 
always bred more and worse wars. The Germans and 
Austrians are buoyed by the hope that they will some day 
be revenged for the trouncing they have received at the 
hands of the allies. This has been called "human nature." 

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It is a lie. Nature is kind, and if the people would apply 
themselves to the study of Her laws, they would have 
neither time or inclination to "do" others, and they would 
qualify themselves for adequate defense against those whose 
ambition is to "do" them. 

That remarkable character, William Shakespeare, is 
immortal. Not in the superstitious sense, but in the most 
eminently practical one. The words he makes Polonius 
say to his son Laertes, as he was about to start out in the 
world alone, (Hamlet), are as literally worthful today as 
they were when he wrote them : 

"Give thy thoughts no tongue, 

"Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 

"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 

"The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 

'Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; 

"But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 

'Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. Beware 

"Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, 

"Bear it that the opposer may beware of thee. 

"Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; 

"Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. 

'Costly thy habit, as thy purse can buy, 

"But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; 

Tor the apparel oft proclaims the man. 

"Neither a borrower or a lender be: 

"For loan oft loses both itself and friend; 

"And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 

"This, above all: To thine own self be true; 

"And it must follow, as the night the day, 

"Thou canst not then be false to any." 

Nature never made any units of measure. She made 
natural standards. Man made the units. Naturally we 
should regard the creative power as of dual gender, if a 
personality, and as a female in point of delivery. But man 
created god in his own image — purely an arbitrary and 

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artificial standard. Mothers are naturally nearer to their 
children than the fathers, because they bore them. The 
mother-love is the stronger. What mother would condemn 
her child to eternal torture, no matter what crime it might 
commit? Yet we are told this male god has a hell in store 
for most of us. The object of the tale is to win power for 
Bosses, right here on this globe, and right now. The suckers 
are promised a heaven hereafter if they bow to the masters 
of the present. The "laws" of the religions have always 
been: "Thou shalt" and "Thou shalt not." 

The laws of Nature will "reveal" themselves to anyone 
who studies. "Seek and ye shall find" is true in Nature, 
up to the limit angle of the laws. If any do not know what 
"limit #ngle" means, study the laws of refraction and re- 
flection of light; then apply the principle to everything else: 
patience, physical endurance, mental capacity, etc. And 
here it is in order to mention a human characteristic product 
of artificial teachings. I have had thousands of patients 
and thousands of students in my school-rooms. I have 
yet to meet the first one who, upon reciting his or her story 
of physiological ills, and being informed that their mental- 
ities are as much deranged as their bodies, did not flush 
with indignation, and many of them were highly offended, 
thus proving my proposition off-hand. 

Among the first important ideas I gathered through 
the process of mental digestion was the fact that Nature's 
laws work on me just as they do on others; and vice versa. 
What any of us elect to believe about anything does not 
alter the facts an iota; therefore, if we really are philosophers 
(lovers of truth), we will search the laws and conform to 
them as nearly as environment will permit. The first half 
of my life I was a complacent follower of "accepted 
authorities," I took my medicine, mental and physical, 
as a matter of course, and was in a disordered condition 
all of the time. I awoke, thirty-odd years ago, since which 
time I have never taken the other fellow's dope, and I have 

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never been ill a minute. A wise-guy brother-in-law of 
mine once told my mother I am the greatest mathematician 
he ever saw and I am all right on many things but on some 
subjects I am insane. There was a time when I would have 
gone five hundred miles to punch his nose. But I merely 
asked mother how my brother-in-law knows we are not 
both crazy on the subjects about which we agree. You see, 
I am out of the fog and he is still in it. I have learned to 
not assume I am always correct. I talk and write in the 
hope that I may help some people to think for themselves. 
I am not going to send them to hell if they do not think; 
and I am not promising them heaven if they do. It is a 
very trite expression when one says: "I've done a hell of 
an amount of thinking' ' about something. 

Practically everything in Nature is present in dualities. 
One of the reasons we accomplish as much work in a school 
year as the old schools do in several years is because we 
employ the duality system in teaching. It has the mathe- 
matical quality of order, accuracy, consecutiveness and 
comprehensiveness. It is the foundation of our System of 
Mature Medicine. It enables us to analyze our cases 
according to the possibilities of causes, by applying static 
and dynamic tests, mental and physiological; and we have 
it down to such fine points that we are able to tell not only 
the ages of skeptics and others, but we actually measure 
their dispositions and temperaments. By disposition we 
mean attitude toward others; by temperament, the relation 
between the mental and physiological, consciously and 
subconsciously, in any case. We not only find the relative 
conditions physiologically, with reference to high, safety, 
danger and low lines, establish by figures, the treatments 
necessary, the possibilities and probabilities of recover- 
ing normal health and the cost to patients in time and 
fidelity to instructions as well as in the coin of the realm 
for our services. Now there are those in power who have 
the impudence to tell the public it has no rights in the 

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matter of selecting its own doctors, and there are actually 
alleged "laws" in some states, which, if enforced, as they 
cannot be, would imprison every sort of doctor save the 
old-fogy drug-habit chaps. There are courts who live in 
terror of political murder, threatened openly by Medical 
Trust doctors, and they render ridiculous decisions, in 
support of contentions of "health" officials. But perse- 
cution only advertises the persecuted. Natural laws work 
in spite of the machinations of the wicked. The public 
should remember that there are statutes covering mis- 
conduct in public office, and it should put the screws to the 
fanatics, giving them a taste of their own "statutory 
medicine." We insist that every sane person is competent 
to choose his or her own doctor, or lawyer, or grocer — and 
has an inalienable right to do it. We think most people 
are foolish to resort to "Christian" science, "chiropractic," 
"naturapathy," or drugs, patent or otherwise; but we do 
not question their rights in the matter. We are not so 
cowardly as to fear the competition of those practitioners 
whom we regard as inferiors, and we do not desire that 
they shall be legislated out of business. If it were possible to 
incorporate in this book sufficient information to put all 
doctors out of business, including ourselves, of course, it 
would be the happiest task we could imagine. There are a 
lot pleasanter things to do than listening to tales of woe. The 
attitude of the Medical Trust toward "irregulars" is not 
a marker to its designs on the public. It was the written 
promise of a Boston doctor to the profession that if they 
would help put the patent medicine men out of business it 
would divert $165,000,000 annually to the pockets of the 
physicians. That is a form of bribery not amenable to the 
statutes. But it didn't work very well. The "patent" 
people advertise; hence the Advertising Agents Trust, 
which controls the Newspaper Trust, which steers the 
Political Trusts at the behest of the Bosses Trust, which 
owns the big Advertising Patronage of the country, man- 

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aged to side-track the Simmons-Billings-McCormack- 
B e v a n-R u s h-Northwestern-Johns-Hopkins-Harvard 
Yale-Columbia-University-of -Pennsylvania gang. They 
are all small fry anyhow. 

Of course it will be said that I have an ax to grind ; that 
I seek to profit by the downfall of the Trusts and the Bosses. 
This is a mistake, because I rather enjoy making the 
heathen rage, and I am amply able to take care of myself 
in any sort of a melee. I have always fought the people's 
fight; I have never asked the people for anything and I 
never will. So far as I am concerned, personally, or cor- 
poratively, damn the public. I do not accept as students 
more than one-half of the number who apply, because they 
are cheap fakers who approach me assuming I am as crooked 
as they are. Occasionally one gets past me and into the 
school-rooms; but when I discover them, they get busy or 
they get out. I have no god to forgive me in job lots 
Sundays for misdeeds during the week; therefore I endeavor 
to follow Polonius' advice and have my own self-respect; 
I thus set an example to my pupils which has never failed 
to work for good. 

In our school we teach mathematics, true medicine, 
business, religion, political economy, everything that per- 
tains to the human race which we have found has to be 
dealt with in one form or another among patients. We have 
no fads, unless it be our abhorrence of them. We prove to 
our students the necessity for variety of opinion, by the 
variety of elements in the world and in the human body. 
We demand that when they go out to practice they know 
enough to do for their patients what Natural law says; not 
what I or my assistants say. We make no pretense of "au- 
thority." We have no desire to be leaders of men — it is a 
thankless job at best. We want to help people to be inde- 
pendent of leadership. We leave all of that business to 
individuals of the calibre of Governor Lowden, of Illinois 
and Governor Harding, of Iowa, except that we do our 

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share to make their plans a failure, because we can think 
of no greater calamity than Socialism, and that is just 
what such characters as Lowden and Harding, under the 
management of the Big Bosses are heading the country into. 
Don't blame the Bolsheviki Socialists, like Debs; they are 
only the effects of great causes. Lowden, Harding, and 
their ilk are mere tools with which the Powers work. The 
Pullman Company, the Telegraph and Telephone Com- 
panies, the Railway Companies, the Gas and Electric 
Companies, the Street-franchise Companies, the Newspaper 
Companies, (which are consolidating in every little town, 
on the orders of the Powers) , all need such fellows — and you 
suckers vote for them, because you have wool over your 
eyes. You read tommy-rot in the papers, and believe it. 
You read the "food" ads in the magazines and pay $4 a 
bushel for stuff put up in fancy packages and given a name 
like "U-need-me," when you could buy it in the rough for 
half the money, you eat it because you think it puts you 
in the fashionable class, and you expire after an operation 
for "appendicitis." You have the "movie" fad — and one 
C. Chaplin gets your money and time while your brain 
shrivels to the proportions of a mustard seed from mental 
malnutrition. It is not remarkable that you are religious 
and political tools, would-be grafters, but not smart enough 
to more than wish. Go to it and welcome. But some day 
you'll admit this paragraph hit you right where you live, 
and you lacked the gumption to see it and wake up. 

It is the duty of every man, woman and child to learn 
to think, to analyze propositions theoretical and conditions 
practical. In order to help them we herewith append 
specimens of our methods of procedure with patients: 

Sex, height, weight, proportions, physiognomy, dispo- 
sition, temperament, and physiological conditions are in- 
dicated, objectively and subjectively, and we go into de- 
tails systematically, thus: 



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f Mental 



Appearance 



(Complexion 
Attitude 

f Positive 
Temperament | 

[ Negative 



Personal 



History 



General. 



Physical. 



_• 



f Development 
f Proportions— \ 

[ Size 



Conditions ... 



fSex 



'Physiological j 



[ Symptoms 
f General 
Ocular 



' Strain...- • 



Shock— 



General. 



k Special. 



' Physical. 

Mental.— 



f Application 
Intellectual.... j 

[Worry 



f Infection 
( Accident 
J Joy 
{ Grief 
f Social 
[ Financial 
f Paternal 
[ Maternal 
( Country 
{city 
f School 



' Condition. 



h Longevity. 



Birth. 



Education. 



( Experience 



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' Objective.... - 



' Quality ... 
k Quantity. 



Ophthalmoscope ■ 



Habits. 



Subjective.. • 



Infection 

' Emmetropia.. 



' Spherical. 



' Ocular. 



Vision. . 



f Hyperopia. 
Compound j 

Myopia 



Intellectual 



' Perception ■ 



Special. 



k Conception • 



Talents. 



f Blood 
( Vessels 
[ Corpuscles 
( Branches 
[ Tobacco 
[ Liquor 
f Catarrh 
( Indigestion 
( Static 
[ Dynamic 



( Abnormal 

Ametropia \ 

{ Subnormal 



( + and + 
[ — and + 
f Cylinder 
( Sphero-Cyl. 



f Superficial 

' General ] 

[ Mathematical 



f Chemical 
[ Mechanical 



f Inherent 

' Capacity { 

[ Acquired 



f Spontaneous 



( Cultivated 



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Then we make tests, dynamic and static, of the nerve 
supply, for comparison with what we know to be normal 
physiological demands in every department of the entire 
body; and when we have finished gathering data we 
figure the matter out just as we would any other physical 
problem, and prove the result by a series of checking 
tests, so that finally we know whether we are warranted 
in taking the case at all, and how much Nature requires 
of us and the patient to get desired effects. 

There is nothing mysterious about any portion of the 
work; no "diagnosis" (guess-work), no experimentation. 
We have named the series of tables and data by which we t 
work, the "Neurometer" (nerve measure), and we have 
added to our already abundant evidence of the mental lazi- 
ness of professional brethern, as well as of the public gen- 
erally, a legion of requests for "prices on the machine." 
It appears nearly all are willing to do anything, except work 
hard, to get through life easy. This is the reason organi- 
zations of professional and alleged "scientific" men and 
women are constantly beseeching legislative enactments 
which will grant them licenses without examinations or 
with perfunctory ones and protect them from future compe- 
tition by giving them control of examining boards, com- 
posed of unscrupulous persons who will resort to foul means 
to attain their objects. Medical practice acts, dental, 
pharmacal, optical, barbers, blacksmiths and all other 
such acts are vilest class legislation and outrages on the 
public. The beneficiaries of these "laws" say that my op- 
position comes from fear graduates from my school will not 
be able to pass such examinations. My reply has always 
been a challenge to any and all members of state boards to 
choose ten or a hundred of their members to compete with 
a like number of our graduates in an examination for which 
I will furnish 100 questions, the other side to furnish the 
same number, and if our representatives do not make better 
grades on the entire two hundred questions we will forfeit 

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our charter, and they have never dared accept the proposi- 
tion. Our school would continue to run and have plenty of 
students among those who already have licenses to practice 
but become conscious of the fact that our graduates accom- 
plish feats impossible for them, with their limited, dogmatic 
training. We have never fought a minute for our school; 
always for the principles of right and justice to the public 
and we shall continue to do so as long as we live. In our 
paper, "Mature Medicine," published quarterly, we name 
the crooks and publish particulars of their acts. That is 
why they lie about us. None of them have ever dared 
tackle us with a libel suit. We have stirred them up from 
Maine to rotten California. They have tried to have the 
paper suppressed. They have even attempted to murder the 
editor; but he still lives and the paper is issued with unerring 
regularity. We send it to any address for 25 cents a year. 
We accept no advertising and we pay the printers promptly, 
so none can charge us with conducting it for profit. We 
send out thousands of free copies each issue, solely with the 
hope that we can arouse public sentiment so that it will 
prepare for the chaos which is coming as sure as disability 
personally will come if symptoms are not attended with 
prompt action. 

I wonder how many readers of this book ever heard of a 
"thesaurus. " It means a treasury of words and phrases. No 
student can afford to be without one. A good dictionary, 
an encyclopedia of general information and an inquiring 
mentality are also essential to knowledge. Erudition is not 
sufficient; study must be supplemented by practical work 
to prove the truths and detect the plausible. 

Instead of starting children on Sunday school lies, 
Santa Claus humbuggery, Mother Goose tales and other 
nonsense, teach them to read, write, spell, then introduce 
them to arithmetic, with its principles of order, accuracy, 
detail, and show them how to apply those principles to 
examine and analyze what they read. Don't lie to them or 

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they will learn to lie to you. Do not deceive yourselves with 
the idea that children do not think. Many of the brightest 
ideas I ever gathered were from children whose mentalities 
were not yet clouded by artful falsehoods which fill with 
fear and inculcate deceit. In my school work I have had 
rare opportunities to study the effects of a lack of 
early training in consideration for others, the amenities, 
the fundamentals and the simplest details of mathematics, 
with the natural result they are inclined to guess at mat- 
ters susceptible of categorical answers; they come to us 
with requests for "credits" because of what they think 
they know, when, as a rule, they find they have to unlearn 
a lot before they can grasp the concrete information we 
give them. We have had college professors, superin- 
tendents of schools, principals of high schools, physicians, 
clergymen of nearly all denominations, common school 
teachers, university boys, high school graduates, grammar 
school pupils, and some who had served long in the school 
of experience. After more than twenty-five years' ex- 
perience we still accept any white man or woman of ma- 
ture years, good character, a good common school educa- 
tion or its equivalent, honesty of purpose and willingness 
to work hard for the duration of the specified term. No 
others need apply. We work with our students, in the 
class-rooms, six hours daily, four days of each week and 
give them tasks the other two days to help them digest 
and assimilate what we have given them on the subject 
under attention. We stick to one branch of study until 
its principles are comprehended; then we couple it with 
the next in order and proceed. We have designated it the 
consecutive, continuous method of instruction, and it has 
finally attracted the attention of the orthodox schools, 
where it has been proposed for adoption by some of the 
Bosses who have read the handwriting on the wall which 
foretells their downfall if they persist in dogmatism. But, 
there is one feature of it that has been overlooked entirely 

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by them, viz. : They haven't teachers who are competent 
to go into the class-rooms, without notes, and talk on a 
single subject six hours daily, for days at a time; hence it 
will be some years before they get under way on that 
schedule. They are under- weights, metaphysically. 

Some people have theories without practice; others 
have practice without any theoretical knowledge of their 
work. Both are necessarily weak — neither is able to an- 
ticipate a possibility and have a solution ready for action; 
therefore the majority are failures when judged by the 
duality standard, which is the only Natural one. The 
game of chess is the best of all to teach children and grown 
people. It is an exhibit of Natural tactics; the unvalue 
of cheating is illustrated practically; the player who loses 
really wins the game, because he learns how his opponent 
hit him and how to avoid it in future; it requires, and there- 
fore cultivates, prescience, which is to science what physics 
is to metaphysics. 

In affairs generally, political and business, we have 
to meet almost daily problems of vital importance, not 
only to individuals but to the public collectively. It is 
one of the dangerous weaknesses of our form of govern- 
ment that our "statesmen" are mushroom productions, 
made in a few hours, at the polls, by a herd filled with 
prejudice, or dogmatic faith in parties and platforms, 
which are mere vehicles on which the designing ones ride 
into power, after which they tell the voter to go to hell — 
and the voter sneaks away, like the poltroon he is, until 
his master calls him again. Assistant state's attorney, 
M. E. Barnhart, of Cook County, Illinois, recently said 
to me: "You don't think you can impeach the Governor 
of Illinois for signing a bill, do you?" In reply I called 
his attention to the fact that the governor took oath to 
support the Constitution of the state and of the United 
States to the best of his ability, and I agreed that he might 
escape on the plea of deficient ability; I also mentioned 

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the statutes, Chapter 38, sections 208, 208c and 208d of 
the Criminal code, which provide who may file complaint, 
how it shall be done and what the states attorney's duty 
in the matter is, when such complaints are filed. Mr. 
Barnhart was evidently under the impression that the 
ordinary citizen has no rights the governor or states at- 
torney is bound to respect. He has his job and fealty to 
his gang is of more importance than any oath he may have 
taken. The governor was guilty of misconduct in office 
when he signed a bill providing for something the Supreme 
Court of the state decided, two years ago, was uncon- 
stitutional. The members of the legislature who voted 
for the bill violated their oaths of office, and their presid- 
ing officers, who signed them also violated their oaths. 
Of course it is unlikely that they will be fined the $10,000 
each, provided by law, or that they will be ousted from 
office, as is also provided by law; but that is because of 
the power in the hands of those who love it more than 
they do money. 

In the matter of money the single-gold standard is 
artificial, unnatural and is the chief cause behind the high 
cost of living. Even the gold-bug press confesses it when 
printing statements that the servant girl who had saved 
$100 several years ago and put it on interest so that today 
she has $200 is no wealthier than she was when she planted 
it. Nature does everything on the double standard basis. 
One is constant and the other is an inconstant. With a 
double standard of money, say gold for a standard of ex- 
change between nations, and silver or its equivalent in 
paper, as the standard of home business, with gold and 
silver coin as legal tender for all debts, public and private, 
there could be no panics, no high cost of living, no con- 
solidation and enormous Power to banks and bankers, 
no combinations of capital in the form of law-defying 
Trusts, no labor or professional unions to sap the life-blood 
of the nation. Of course this means that in fixing a money 

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standard, other, subsidiary regulations would be adopted; 
that follows as a corollary. The home standard would 
change its value compared with the international one ac- 
cording to conditions; that would be necessary to keep 
business in balance. Mr. Bryan's insane notion of a con- 
stant sixteen-to-one ratio was typical of the fanatical class 
he represented, and that weakness was the only thing — 
except Republican "tactics" — that beat him in 1896. It 
is too big a subject to undertake to discuss at length here; 
all I seek is the awakening of the public to dangers of the 
future from the domination of the Powers that control 
now— the Czar of Russia went down and so will they. 
Let us avoid the certain bloody crisis by organized, well- 
balanced effort. Form a new political party and choose 
for its executive committee men of ability and integrity 
of an absolutely unimpeachable variety — if they can be 
found. Remember Diogenes' job, 2,000 years ago. By 
the way, there was one who learned from children; after 
making all sorts of sacrifices he could think of he saw a boy 
drinking from his hand at a well; he exclaimed: "that 
boy gives me an idea of something I can do without/' and 
he threw away a pitcher he carried. We can certainly do 
without a lot of political scull-duggers and hangers-on 
who only work at election time. 

It is apropos to mention the fact that the Hun element 
in office is a nuisance and a very dangerous one. They 
have it in their power to alter or destroy valuable records, 
and there can be no doubt many of them will do so as a 
part of the German scheme of revenge. The best time 
to lock the barn is before, not after the horse is stolen. 
The complacent damned fool "patriot" will declare I am 
a pessimist. Not for a minute. I am an optimist; as sure 
that Nature will come out on top in the final show-down 
as I am that I exist. I have lived for more than twenty- 
eight years within a thousand feet of Lake Michigan. I 
have seen storms that tossed steamer after steamer on 

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shore, wrecked beyond hope of repair; I have seen the 
bodies of passengers and crew, pallid in death, after the 
waves subsided and the surface was as calm as a mill-pond; 
so I am sure Nature rules supreme; but I am equally sure 
there will be some wrecked business boats and many lives 
sacrificed to that juggernauth, Power. I am playing chess; 
I call "check," it is your move. 



"I honor the man who is willing to sink 
"Half his present repute for the freedom to think; 
"And, having thought, be his cause strong or weak, 
"Will sink t'other half for the freedom to speak. 
"Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in 

store, 
"Be that mob the upper ten thousand, or lower." 

— Lowell. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 
Appearances, Actions and Idiosyncrasies 

Phrenology, physiognomy, and similar subjects, have 
been made butts of ridicule and the hobbies of specialists 
who overestimated their importance. But, after all, they 
are "straws" which indicate trends. They certainly ex- 
emplify the ancient axiom, that "where there's smoke 
there must be fire." 

None are surer than children and animals in sizing up 
character from appearance and conduct. One of the 
greatest mistakes of parents is the assumption that chil- 
dren are incapable of grasping mentally the bigger affairs 
of life; that there is information which should be withheld 
from them until they are almost of voting age. 

In teaching and practicing a profession which has to 
do with human ills, it is absolutely necessary that we 
study all phases, mental and physiological, chemical and 
mechanical, theoretically and practically. It not only 
qualifies for best work, but it saves time and temper. 

The president of a great university, in Chicago, has 
been quoted as saying there are thirteen physiognomical 
exhibits which are bad; that he is faulty in ten of them, 
and woe to the person who shows them all. I have never 
met him personally but I have seen him and want to make 
it a matter of record that he must be an adept in conceal- 
ing them from ordinary mortals, for I formed a most agree- 
able opinion of his general personality objectively and 
found an abundance of corroborative evidence in studying 
him subjectively by his acts and utterances. I have had 
an experience with the head of another great institution, 
a relative, who is known as "the Chancellor." He was 

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about to undertake the arduous and dubious task of com- 
piling the family genealogy and desired some information 
from me. Instead of addressing me personally, he did it 
through his secretary, who wrote: "The Chancellor" 
this and "the Chancellor" that until it nauseated me. If 
I had such a secretary I'd give him a dog-button. I held 
my temper and replied politely and supplied such in- 
formation as had been wished on me by ill advised mem- 
bers of our tribe, for which I received "the Chancellor's" 
thanks through the aforesaid secretary in the same gush- 
ful language. I could not avoid being impressed with the 
idea that "the Chancellor" estimates his personality at 
a higher value than he does the institution of which he 
is the head, and that the Chicago University president 
reverses the order. I hope, most sincerely, that some day 
I may find it merely a hero-worshiping secretary; the evi- 
dent "atmosphere" in which that secretary lives persists 
in raising doubts. 

In studying the dualities of individuals I have found 
that we all have not only the mental and physiological, 
but that our mentalities are dual. I applied tests to my- 
self and others and was puzzled until, once upon a time, 
my colleague, Dr. Black, took a front view photograph 
of me, printed it obversely and reversely, then, cutting 
it vertically through the middle of the nose, and pasting 
the right half of one with the left of the other, pictured 
me as if both sides of my face were alike. Comparing them 
with the original print, I appeared as three persons. Of 
the composite ones, one appeared as an individual who 
might buy a gold brick, or if compelled to walk a mile 
with another would "go with him twain;" while the other 
face indicated a cool, calculating villian a dog would growl 
at. My puzzle was solved. I know now why some people 
impose on me for a long time and I know why they run 
against a snag at last. I have been called a "god" and a 
"devil" by people whom I regarded as rather unbalanced; 

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now I know they were probably right — it all depends on 
which half of my mental duality is dominating. From 
my own case I have been able to discover that all are en- 
dowed, or afflicted with this dual mentality, and that 
physiogomies are pretty true indexes of their respective 
domination. 

Some one has remarked that to say a woman is pretty 
is a compliment; but to say man is the same, is an insult. 
That is custom. Nature says the average artificial stand- 
ard of beauty, in male or female is such facial symmetry 
that all marks of character are absent. I have rarely seen 
a so-called "beauty," of either sex, who was not absolutely 
insipid, self-conscious and tiresome. Many years ago, 
when still a subject of custom, I attended a public meeting 
in Richmond, Indiana, where the wife of one of the pro- 
fessors of Earlham college had occasion to speak. When 
she arose it flashed over me that she was the homliest 
woman I had ever seen; but she hadn't talked five minutes 
until her whole aspect changed. I knew her well after- 
ward and she grew in my estimation until she was one of 
the most beautiful women I have ever known — no, it was 
not a case of personal affection; she was older than my 
mother; it was the character reflected in her face. Then 
I recalled the first fist-fight I ever had as a child: A boy 
remarked in my hearing that my chum's sister was an 
ugly girl. She had always been so good to me, and her 
brother, that we regarded her as absolutely beautiful. I 
hit him and we had a rough-and-tumble, out of which we 
both came somewhat the worse for wear. I went home 
with a black eye. When my angel met me she was hor- 
rified and attended me promptly; during the operation 
she insisted on knowing what the row was about. When 
I told her she laughed and said: "Why, dear, I am homely." 
I took a look and for the first time I made a comparison 
of faces according to popular standards; but I was still 
loyal and declared: "You are beautiful to me, anyhow, 

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and I'll lick anyone who says you're not" — then she cried, 
woman-like. 

In estimating physical values, the general proportions 
are important. One may be large or small, but if well- 
proportioned the appearance is agreeable — unless there 
are physiognomical marks which give other impressions. 

The general shape of the head is significant: It must 
not be too round, nor too long and narrow; the forehead 
must be well-set; if it is decidedly vertical and low it may 
mean a mathematical or musical person, talented but 
unscrupulous. Much depends upon its combination with 
other symptoms. If the forehead is high and slopes back- 
ward to almost a point high on the back of the head, it 
indicates an insufferable egotist and a weak mentality; 
it is unpleasant to look at because it is so out of propor- 
tions; in connection with it is usually found a small lower 
back head, indicating weakness physically. The head 
that is smaller above the top of the ears than below that 
line is deficient intellectually, tending to exhibit more of 
the animal than the intellectual nature. The head that 
is big all over, with square outlines, somewhat concealed 
by fat, is dominated by a mentality which caters more 
to pleasures than to work, is usually found on office-holders 
and politicians — they are often men of considerable ability, 
but, as a rule absolutely selfish and unscrupulous in ob- 
taining what they want. They are large and rather vain 
about it; but are of the calibre, mentally that they would 
accomplish by might that which would not be counte- 
nanced as right. 

One of the most conspicuous marks of degeneration 
is exhibited in the forms of ears. Note the well-balanced 
ears of many old people, a well rounded top and rim, with 
a well-defined lobe; then examine the younger ones, par- 
ticularly the rising generation, over-fed, not only phys- 
ically, on the sweets, starches and fats constituting the 
orthodox diet, but also mentally, on "movies," "jazz bands," 

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"topical" songs, "society" rot, etc., and you will find ears 
without lobes and otherwise misshapen. Study the men- 
talities of the old and the young at close range and you will 
find the young as badly warped as are their ears. Ego 
in the young will cause them to resent this, or their ignor- 
ance and carelessness will prevent their taking heed of 
their conditions and endeavoring to offset this bad mark 
by overcoming the faults indicated. The object of these 
paragraphs is to help readers to see themselves "as others 
see them," so they may, if they will, proceed to make 
alterations in their mentalities, which will, eventually, 
change their physiognomies. It is not meant that they 
will grow lobes on their ears; but there will be changes 
which will modify the effects of the appearance of those 
organs. I had a pupil once whose ears stood straight out 
from the head and in analyzing him, by request, I pointed 
to that exhibit as one indicating he was an easy mark; 
that he agreed with everybody, merely to be agreeable 
and thus became insipid. I told him he could overcome 
the weakness by mental application. He heard me through, 
thanked me, then went to a dermatologist and had his 
ears set back by operation! That struck him as the easier 
way — but he is still a "sucker." A good fellow, but a 
light-weight, mentally, and always will be. He had other 
indications, which emphasized the ear markings; but they 
were of such a nature they could not be operated. 

A retreating chin, is a bad mark, intellectually; yet 
I have known people with this symptom, who were so 
well-marked and developed, in other respects, that they 
were able to pass as perfectly well-balanced, by wearing 
chin whiskers. Some early observer named the point of 
the chin the "mental process" and I hold him in great 
respect for doing it. When a chin is too long vertically 
or the mental process protrudes too far it indicates bull- 
dog propensities. When it is too short vertically 
and the mental process is not well-marked, the 

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reverse is true — unless there are other, offsetting exhibits. 

What has been called a "dish-face," because of its 
roundness, with a flat nose and wide pupillary distance, 
has so many weak points that it is unpleasant to look at 
and is often intensified, in women, by wearing a hat with 
the rim turned squarely up in front; but many of them are 
intelligent and have qualities which make us forget their 
homeliness. They never have any taste, in the matter of 
dress, worth mentioning favorably; many of them are 
inclined to be opinionated without any reason for the 
assumption, but quite a lot are well-informed and if stirred 
up by calling apparent bluffs, we may learn much from 
them. 

The narrow, hatchet-face, is as narrow mentally; is 
jealous, full of pretense, stubborn, mostly wrong in con- 
troversies, hunts trouble continuously and often finds it; 
is most content when worrying others. 

Square jaws indicate a conceit which is wearisome. 
They observe the mark in their mirrors, and being often 
well developed otherwise, conclude they are handsome 
and those jaws indicate firmness, which is sometimes true, 
physically. They are great posers for photographers and 
are flattered by the results. They are absolutely incon- 
siderate of others and even make special efforts to cause 
inconvenience. They often boast that they do not allow 
business to interfere with pleasure — and are usually 
"broke" financially. 

High cheek-bones mean weak constitutions, physically, 
unless offset by other marks. 

A large nose with a slightly arched bridge, is a fine 
mark; it means good-nature, good sense, consideration 
for others, but not too self-sacrificing. Too much of an 
arch means the owner will take advantage of you if he 
can gain anything by it. When there is a dimple where 
the nose-bridge should be it indicates a "smart- Aleck," 
a careless and heedless person, one from whom we require 

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written and well-secured contracts when we do business. 

Deep set eyes, indicate hyperopia, (under-developed 
eyes), hence nerve strain and consequent peevishness. 
Prominent eyes are usually associated with very agreeable 
people. They may be hyperopic, however, and the nerve 
strain, causing indigestion and other disorders, may upset 
their natural agreeability. Symptoms, if understood and 
attended, constitute steps to health and happiness. 

Puffs and dark crescents under the eyes indicate de- 
fective eyes, and poor blood circulation from deficient 
nerve supply. In women a contributing cause is disorder 
peculiar to their sex. • 

A mouth that droops at the ends indicates a "grouch. " 

One that turns up at the ends is the reverse. 

A cupids-bow mouth may be pretty but it is usually 
exhibited on the faces of those who are "pretty/ ' vain 
and insipid. 

Straight mouths, which remain straight under all 
circumstances, whether laughing or not, and formed of 
thin lips, indicate ill-nature, jealousy, gossip of the slan- 
derous sort, and a general grudge at mankind. 

Thick, bulging lips are bad, particularly if the lower 
one rolls out and down. The owners are menaces to the 
peace of the family, although they often put up a "good 
front" with strangers. It doesn't pay to become intimate 
with them. 

Eyes too close together mean lack of stamina, impet- 
uosity, poor judgment, but often much ability in special 
lines. The owners are easily influenced, hence if they fall 
into the right company they may develop well. 

Eyes that twinkle affectedly as they look at you have 
vanity and duplicity behind them, which they are con- 
scious of and foolishly imagine they conceal it in that 
manner. 

Black eyes are in dangerous heads. They are the 
windows of jealous brains and guide a hand that carries 

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a dagger. They are particularly dangerous if accompanied 
by a short upper lip. They indicate a highly emotional 
person who is always self-centered. 

Brown eyes are, usually, indications of amiability. 
They are foud in people who are inclined to boasting to 
the extent of exaggeration. They are possessed by people 
of many good qualities, but lax in keeping engagements, 
social and business, much to the annoyance of those who 
have to do with them. The possessors who look straight 
at you, when talking, are trustworthy. They are not very 
energetic, are content with what they have and are real 
"homy" people, if of average size or larger. 

Blue eyes are in honest heads as a rule, unless they are 
too pale, when they are tricky. There are more blue-eyed 
people than of any other class, hence they require more 
critical tests than others, particularly a comparison with 
other points. 

Gray eyes are found in steady-going people, reliable, 
but rarely stir up much excitement because there is not 
enough friction in their make-up. They look straight 
at you and see clear through you. Don't lie to them if 
you want their friendship. If they do not look straight 
at you, beware. 

Narrow teeth indicate weakness congenitally. Broad 
teeth indicate the reverse. 

A long upper lip indicates obstinacy when the pos- 
sessor thinks he is right; a lack of it when he is uncertain. 
Usually honest, but when the opposite he is bad. I have 
never seen such a person who was of a jealous disposition. 

Ears too close to the head mean selfishness in the mean 
sense. 

People who talk too much have little time for thought. 
They are easily influenced in a manner that breeds con- 
tempt for them. Those who cannot talk without laughing 
almost constantly are insincere and vain. Women gigglers 
are fools. 

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" Crow's feet" at the outer corners of the eyes, indicate 
eye strain. 

Vertical wrinkles between the eyes mean the same thing. 

A high point on the top head, on a line with the ears, 
means veneration for things of the superstitious class. 

Heavy jowls and a thick neck exhibit in those more 
interested in the physical than the intellectual. They 
may have good educations and be capable of thought, but, 
as a rule, they are intellectually lazy. 

Those who boast of expertness, usually lack it. 

Those who profess great gentility rarely exhibit the 
fine qualities which we naturally expect from them. 

Idiosyncrasies are sometimes irritating, occasionally 
amusing, often pitiful and never interesting save to stu- 
dents of the peculiarities. They are exhibited by devotees 
of fashion, who are governed by custom, or who seek 
prominence by cheap false pretenses. 

Nearly all men part their hair on the left side, as a mat- 
ter of convenience, because the vast majority are right- 
handed. It follows that those who do otherwise have some 
other reason. Those who split it in the middle evidently 
needed it to keep their brains in balance, because they near- 
ly always exhibit rather small mental calibre. Those who 
do not part it at all, but comb it carefully back over their 
tops, generally have physiognomies and mentalities to 
match; they appear conscious of a difference between 
themselves and others, but never to their disadvantage. 

Mothers of light mentalities name their children fan- 
tastically in the belief that a ''grand" name will develop 
a great man. Such lads usually grow up in the atmos- 
phere peculiarly suggested by the naming, and improve 
on it by "distinguished" arrangement, such as "G. Wash- 
ington Brown," "A. Hamilton Smith," "H. Clay Jones," 
"J. W. Wilson Pennypacker." Then the notion of family 
nobility is perpetuated by "Elbert Hubbard II." "Marsh- 
all Field III," etc., all of which is harmless, but signifies 

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an impression that individuals are greater than things or 
causes. With the general public it is a decided handicap. 
It has been my misfortune, to have never met a man who 
did the "J. Pierpont" act who was well balanced and on 
the square in his dealings with fellow mortals. I have 
known some who tried it as a fad for a time, but recovered 
under pressure of ridicule or by reason of their own horse 
sense. 

Few people boast of having an insane member of the 
family; but nearly all like to discuss their own and others' 
physiological ills. It is very common among patients of 
doctors to exhibit great pride in the fact that their cases 
are puzzles, indeed, if a physician wants to flatter the aver- 
age patient he can easily do so by telling him or her that 
the case is the most complex he ever saw. When one of 
those cases comes to me I listen to the recital of their tales 
and what others have said about their conditions, then 
I suggest that there is one point of importance which ap- 
pears to have been overlooked by all, namely: The mental 
derangement which always accompanies physiological 
disorders. Then they become highly indignant, which 
proves the accuracy of my statement. Many insist that 
their physiological deficiencies have automatically made 
their mentalities keener. In one sense this may be true, 
but they are unbalanced just the same. Some have argued : 
"Do you admit that when you are out of normal condition 
systematically your mentality is affected?" to which I 
reply: "Law is law; it works on us all alike. The fact 
that I recognize the truth, helps me take care of myself, 
just as it aids me in setting you right, provided you follow 
instructions." When I am making copy and feel mentally 
sluggish I know I am not up to normal physiologically. 
When I grind out work while feeling disordered physi- 
ologically I know it is not up to my normal mental ca- 
pacity. This will explain some of the variations in the 
effects on my readers. I have written articles for my 

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paper which hit tender spots in readers who wrote me: 
"If you could realize what a lot of 'rot* you write you 
wouldn't print it." I reply: "If you could see the 'rot' I 
write and do not print you would be thankful." It doesn't 
all get by me when I have time to look it -over. But that 
isn't the question. I do not write to pick at people. I 
am presenting conditions as I have found them. Read 
and heed or ignore, just as you like. I bear no malice 
toward any. I play no favorites in presenting proposi- 
tions. If my own experiences will help others I do not 
spare myself in giving them. The cause is greater than 
the individual. 



Character, like ill health, is a product of many possible 
combinations of causes; hence it would be manifestly unfair 
to attempt to judge people by a few symptoms. It has 
been my pleasure to discover that faults obtrude them- 
selves upon us and we must search for the good points in 
each case; I have found more good than bad in every 
person I have ever known, by applying the credit and 
debit system of ordinary bookkeeping. Let others apply 
the same tactics and they will be happier. This is com- 
mended especially to readers who are fanatically ambitious 
to be their brothers keepers; the "moralists," who are so 
lewd they see it reflected in others. 



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CHAPTER IX. 
The Menace of Old-School Medicine. 

The menace of old-school medicine is not limited to its 
uncertainty and the Russian tactics of its political bosses, 
through the mediums of alleged "laws." Thousands of 
practitioners have learned that it is largely guess-work, 
and their lists of usable drugs are limited to the less harmful 
ones; they are not at all in sympathy with the persecution 
of drugless competitors; but they are an apathetic lot, 
many of them indigent, and the few who are earning as 
much as $2,500 a year are afraid to leave their practices to 
take up the study of more certain methods, because they 
cannot trust their colleagues with their patients. Many 
have told me so. 

The practice by artificial standards is, necessarily, 
almost wholly experimental. Happily for them, the public 
has been hypnotized by religious influences, until it has 
more faith in the doctor than in itself — when it is sick — 
hence, there are always some for them to collect fees from. 
But the advent of the "cults," who brazenly announce 
"cures" by methods ranging from "Christian science 
adjusting lateral displacements of the lumbar vertebrae," 
and the "licensing" of many of them by reason of slips in 
Medical Trust "laws," has put a crimp in orthodox practice, 
so that many have resorted to "prescribing" narcotic drugs 
for those who have the habit; also for those who are in pain, 
until they have produced an alarming lot of "dope fiends," 
according to a report by a committee, composed of Congress- 
man Henry T. Rainey, of Illinois, Prof. Reed S. Hunt, of 
Harvard University, Deputy Commissioner B. C. Keith, 
of the Internal Revenue Bureau, and Dr. A. G. Dumez, of 
the United States Public Health Service, which committee 

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found that the number of addicts "exceeds 1,000,000 at 
the present time." 

But, instead of placing the blame for the condition of 
affairs where it belongs, and advocating statutes absolutely 
forbidding the employment of such drugs in practice, it is 
urged that special legislation be enforced and more enacted. 
What is the use of more, if they are unable to enforce what 
they have? It is all bunk. They are afraid their family 
doctors will poison them if they attack their hobby of 
deadly drugs in lethal doses. 

The "health" officer of New York reports a total of 
103,000 addicts in that city, and on that basis the com- 
mittee, figures there are 1,908,000 in the country. It is a 
safe bet they do not know half of them. It has been reported 
in orthodox medical journals that there are over 33,000 
doctors, out of a total of 150,000, who are habitual users of 
opium, cocaine and other habit-forming drugs. I have 
information that one of the professors in the University of 
Pennsylvania, some years ago, who did not believe the 
"habit-forming" story, put it to the test and died from the 
experiment. But they continue to teach and use the dope 
in their school and in the field. 

It is figured, grotesquely, that national prohibition will 
increase the number of drug addicts. State prohibition 
never prohibited and national nonsense will not do it, 
either. As long as there are corn, wheat, rye, barley, etc., 
there will be liquor. A lot of fanatics are in the saddle, and 
there is going to be chaos. 

Many years ago, while editing a daily paper in Indiana, 
I proposed a solution of the liquor question which alarmed 
the "temperance" fanatics and the saloon men so much 
that they united in denouncing me, for different reasons, 
of course the liquor men because it would put them out of 
business, with no chance to demand reparation, in a few 
days; the fanatics, because it would also put them out of 

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business by obliterating the subject of controversy. My 
plan was simple: 

Let Congress pass an act removing all taxes, of every 
description, from the stuff. Let no state, county, or 
municipality impose a license for selling. Then every 
grocer could keep it in stock and it would be as cheap as 
cider, not over forty cents a gallon. Then, if any person 
used it to excess, and became disorderly in the family or 
community, or in any manner neglected his duties to his 
family or the state on account of liquor, he should be 
arrested and given a suspended sentence for the first offense. 
For a second offense, be he or she rich or poor, the first 
sentence should be executed with an addition of six months 
in a workhouse, during which period no "luxuries" should 
be permitted and no favoritism of any sort practiced. 

There would be very few second doses if the offenders 
knew the result would surely follow. But the hypo- 
critical fanatics, who make money out of the "temperance" 
campaigns, argued that "everybody would be in the gutters 
the first week." I suppose they feared the temptation to 
themselves. The liquor men denounced the proposition 
because they said it would wipe out their business in a jiffy, 
for, "who would pay ten or fifteen cents for a drink when 
he could get a quart for a dime?" 

The allopathic, or "regular," school of practice repre- 
sentatives number about 125,000; the homeopaths, about 
20,000; the eclectics, about 4,000; and the physio-medical- 
ists, about 1,000, in the United States. Of these, the first- 
named are the great offenders in the employment of "habit- 
forming" drugs; next in order are the homeos, but they use 
such attenuated forms it is doubtful if they have done 
much harm; next are the eclectics, who use very little 
poisons of any sort, and the physio-meds, who do not use 
them at all. Other offenders are the "patent" medicine 
and "proprietary" fellows. The first named are those who 
advertise to the public, and the second are the smarter ones 

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who stand in with the allopaths by "advertising to the 
profession" only. Thus the medical journals are fine com- 
mercial enterprises. See the Journal of the American 
Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society 
Journal, and others scattered all over the country. 

I charge all of the "reformers" and "investigators" 
with deliberate insincerity. The way to get rid of a nuisance 
is to tackle its roots, and the suggestion I have repeated is 
the only Natural solution of the alleged problem. I charge 
the press of the country with infidelity to the public and 
with deliberate, malicious cruelty, in carrying "patent" 
medicine advertisements, and, what is worse, with printing 
the aHeged "health" articles they do as special features, 
holding out that their contributors are "authorities," when 
they are the cheapest sort of political healers or are ignorant 
tools of the Medical Trust scheme to mislead the people so 
they will live in a manner which will surely make business 
for the allopaths. Ask any allopath you know what he 
thinks of the author of this book. He will tell you I am an 
ignoramus and a faker. It makes no difference whether he 
ever heard of me or not — I expose his class, hence he must 
discredit me if possible. Tell him he dare not come and tell 
me I am a faker. I confess I do not know it all. I know 
enough to make them squirm and I am not afraid to tell it. 
I have no "Christian" affiliations by which I can get 
absolution Saturday nights for my week's sins, so I try to 
be on the square all of the time. I know something of the 
libel laws and I know the rights of a free press and of free 
speech. I hold myself in readiness to prove what I write 
or say. 

There is a scheme on foot right now, which, if successful, 
will put the public health in jeopardy to a greater extent 
than anything ever dreamed of. It is to have a Medical 
Trust cabinet officer, with a department of government to 
be used to persecute progressive doctors who repudiate 
drug medication, hence are dangerous competitors of the 

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Trust; but worse of all, its promotors are unscrupulous 
fanatics who will inflict compulsory vaccination and 
serum "therapy* ' (experiments all) upon every man, 
woman and child in this country. It is claimed that "inoc- 
ulation' ' prevented typhoid fever in the army, when anyone 
who thinks knows it was the good sanitary conditions that 
prevented it. They are unable to account for the deadly 
effects of the "flu," but it is easily apparent to all who 
think, and figure, that it was the "inoculation' ' effects. 
In England, where they keep honest statistics, vaccination 
is voluntary, and they are so conservative in the matter of 
experimentation on the public that none of it is permitted. 
I have never been an enthusiast over biographies or auto- 
biographies, but in this instance a bit of chronological 
biography appears necessary in order that the readers 
may be better able to understand how I came to be able 
to do some of the things I have done and how I have be- 
come able to judge people and things on symptoms as well 
as acts: 

Born in Allegheny, Penna., in 1858 of parents who were 
both school teachers, and the second child of a mother who 
had from childhood been afflicted with almost constant 
headaches, which I many years later learned were from 
eye strain and chronic indigestion partly due to the same 
cause but largely due to wrong living. As a consequence of 
her condition following my birth I was taken by her sister 
to Ohio at the age of four months where she lived with her 
husband, James E. Nelson, on her father's farm, he having 
retired and moved into town. I was never adopted by 
this uncle and aunt but lived with them until he died, 
when I was a little over fifteen years old. He always 
told people in a pleasant way that I was his "borrowed" 
boy and I was taught to call them uncle and aunt, but no 
parents ever had greater attachment than I gave them as 
long as they lived. He died on the 25th anniversary of 
their marriage and she died on the 50th anniversary. 

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They never had other children than myself, and instead of 
spoiling me I was made a companion from the time I could 
talk; all family affairs were discussed in my presence and 
I was taught to keep our affairs to myself as the best 
policy. 

When I was about one year old medical "science" having 
discovered vaccination, as described in a later chapter, 
inoculated me with what was called scrofula or King's 
evil, which exhibited tubercular swellings followed by erup- 
tions and scabs until I was anything but an agreeable 
sight; but these good people stuck to me and spent a lot 
of money on the doctors with very little returns until I 
got big enough to develop notions of my own about what 
I should eat. I had been forbidden salt and fruits and fed 
sweets and starches until they nauseated me and I was 
a nervous wreck. In the meantime we had moved into town 
and my uncle was in the grocery business midway between 
our home and the school I attended, so I had abundant 
opportunity to indulge stealthily and began to improve at 
once. My parents had moved to our town so that I knew 
them but had no desire to change my place of living, and 
indeed the matter never came up until I was past nine years 
of age, when uncle found a location in Missouri and wrote 
for my aunt to join him and to keep me with her if the pa- 
rents consented. This was my first fright but it disappeared 
quickly when we easily secured mother's consent for me to 
go. In Missouri we went back to the farm and for the 
next three years, even though rather small and youthful, 
I did all sorts of work, from herding sheep to fighting 
prairie fires and doing everything else that would keep me 
in company with my uncle. It was a new country and 
shortly after the civil war, among people who were South- 
ern sympathizers, with a few other invaders like ourselves. 
The public school system was instituted and we all got along 
agreeably, the horseback riding and other work conducing 
to my health, except that for many years I continued to 

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have skin eruptions and when I at intervals applied to 
physicians who were reputed to know things they invariably 
pronounced the cause gonorrhoea or syphilis, neither of 
which disorders I have ever had, hence I charge orthodox 
medical science with being as great a humbug as Christian 
Science, not only for what it did to me as a child and young 
man, but for what is to follow in this article and throughout 
this book. I cannot see how readers can fail to be convinced 
I know what I am talking about and am right. That 
uncle of mine was a thoughtful man of good education for 
his time and was as practical in his advise to me as Shakes- 
peare made Polonius to Laertes, quoted elsewhere. One 
thing he advised was against gambling and his reason, 
"it's the other fellow's game." 

At the age of fourteen we were again established in town 
where my uncle who was an expert boot and shoe maker, 
opened a shop. The first pair of boots I ever wore I made 
myself; uncle cut them out and I did the rest, of which we 
were both very proud. I made friends with a doctor who 
was the head of a drug firm where the Post Office was 
located, and through having been a volunteer nurse for a 
mutual friend at a time when adult nurses were impossible 
and having successfully carried through several delirious 
nights I was not infrequently taken to the country with 
the doctor and had experience administering anaesthetics 
and otherwise acting the part of a mature person without 
any special consciousness, so I became a part of the drug 
store and Post Office, where I was sworn in as Assistant 
Post Master before I was fifteen and made good. I had 
other experiences than mercantile, one of which was closing 
the shutters over the front windows of the store on periodi- 
cal visits from the Younger brothers and other desperadoes 
who occasionally invaded and shot up the town. I found it 
safe to go out and do that work where men would have 
found it somewhat dangerous; it also gave me an oppor- 
tunity to get acquainted with the desperadoes who rather 

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regarded me favorably on account of my "nerve" as they 
called it and we became fairly good friends. 

In February, 1874, we held a family council and it was 
decided at least polite that I go back to Ohio and spend a 
few months with my parents in the hope that I might 
have some higher schooling than I had yet received. I was 
advised to sell a horse my uncle had given me when we 
came to town and use the money for the trip. I never 
have since tackled quite as hard a job as it was to stay in 
the stage by which I had to make the first twenty-one 
miles of the journey after my uncle told me good-bye 
when we drove by the shop for that purpose. I could 
scarcely resist the desire to jump right out and stay there. 
Then when the news came to me a month later that he had 
assisted at the burial of a friend on a rainy day and died 
of pne'umonia two days afterward I felt I had made the 
mistake of my life in leaving him. As soon as my aunt 
closed up her affairs she came back to Ohio and when I 
found after eight months of life at my father's home that 
it was so unnatural I could not stand it, aunt and I went to 
housekeeping and lived happily many years. 

Until I spent the several months at my parents' home in 
1874 I had never been involved in anything like suspicion 
of the theory or practice of religion. There I found United 
Presbyterian fanatics. We children were not allowed to 
say "Sunday." It was to be "Sabbath." On that day we 
were not allowed to read anything but religious literature, 
in one of which journals, published in Pittsburgh, I found a 
very interesting and bitter exposure of Free Masonry 
which I investigated further some years later, taking the 
degrees Entered Apprentice, Fellowcraft, and Master 
Mason, which I have remained for thirty-eight years. 
My mother's health was not such as conduced to happiness 
in the home, for, while I was not mistreated, I found my 
sister and younger brother were, and as my mother's 
sister who had raised me had never said a cross word to 

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me in my life the comparison disappointed me. Other 
things combined to help me reach the conclusion that any 
religion which had for its fundamental proposition the 
promise of a heaven for those who embraced it and the 
threat of a hell for those who didn't must be a simple fraud 
on its face. It didn't fit with my experience in life thus far, 
so in October I packed my valise and told my mother my 
sentiments, after which I took my permanent departure. 
For a time we were not on very good terms but later I 
occasionally visited them for a day and many years after- 
wards I had the pleasure of doing for mother what all the 
medical "science" of her life had failed to do. I removed 
the causes of her headache and indigestion, making her 
last years comfortable and much less fanatical. Of course 
she never quite recovered from my pronounced atheism 
but she sometimes gave evidence that she had some lurking 
suspicions I was right in my conclusion. 

During the summer I was at my father's house he had a 
visit from an old time Pittsburgh friend who was an amateur 
phrenologist, and a very interesting man. He offered to 
demonstrate some of his propositions by examining my head 
and those of my brother and sister. After he finished he 
told father I had a very remarkable head, that if given 
opportunity to develop it I would become one of the 
greatest lawyers of the time. This news didn't hurt me any 
because my Uncle Jim had taught me to never let my head 
get swelled over anything; he taught me that I had a mind 
and not only the right but the ever present duty to use it. 
He and his friend, the county superintendent of schools in 
Missouri, had discovered and cultivated some mathe- 
matical talent so that I have always had to put everything 
in figures before I can satisfy myself I understand the 
subject. One of my reasons for disbelief in a future life is 
that having proved our bodies return automatically to 
their original elements after death, it naturally follows, 
in the mental section, that while we have not the physical 

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demonstration we have reason to believe there is something 
analogous. So I did not make any effort at the time, or 
since, to become a great lawyer. In 1876, however, I did 
have an opportunity to take up the study of law part of the 
time with Judge William H. West, a man who had been a 
member of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who had practiced 
criminal law thirty-five years and never lost a case, who in 
1884 was proclaimed "the blind orator of Ohio, who nom- 
inated for President, James G. Blaine, at the Chicago 
convention." Judge West taught me common law and 
the fundamental principles of law in general. He indulged 
his habit of quizzing on me in order to stir me to thought 
and expression, and one day in February, 1877, he informed 
me during one of our little combats, when I argued that 
when an attorney is admitted to the bar he becomes a 
member of the court and owes duties to society at large 
which are paramount to anything he owes a criminal 
client, that I was too fanatically honest to ever make a 
successful trial lawyer. Right across the hall from his 
office was a first class country newspaper and printing 
office, established by Petroleum V. Nasby (D. R. Locke) 
and then run by J. Q. A. Campbell, a civil war veteran, 
who came of a family of printers and editors. I accepted 
the judge's verdict and applied to Mr. Campbell for the 
opportunity to learn his business. He accepted me after I 
went across to the court house and brought my father to 
sanction the bargain. My salary was three dollars a week 
the first year, four dollars a week the second year, and five 
dollars a week the last year. The hours were from seven 
A. M. to six P. M., with one hour for dinner, and occasional 
extra night work without pay. I not only learned to set 
type, straight matter, advertising and job work, run presses 
and everything else that was done in those days about a 
printing office by the regular employes, but I was mailing 
clerk from the first week. I sometimes kept books, collected 
bills, gathered news and applied myself generally with the 

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idea of becoming not a mere printer but a newspaper man. 
I went to the office nearly every morning at six o'clock and 
found time to read exchanges. I learned by many routes 
that the best educated men in the country, many legisla- 
tors and congressmen and other leading citizens were the 
editors of country newspapers. It was a necessity and 
honor to be a "graduate of the case." As one of the necessi- 
ties they knew news from slander and they knew the laws 
relating to their rights of publication, so my experience 
with Judge West previous to and during my life with Mr. 
Campbell came in very well. Within a month after my 
three years had expired in February, 1880, 1 was part owner 
of a small country paper and during the next two years I 
learned a lot more, one item of which was that patent 
medicine had become quite an industry, having developed 
from two roots: first, the teachings of medical practitioners 
that drugs cured; second, that the general public was so 
easily humbugged it not only patronized the doctors who 
practiced and sold patent medicines but they bought 
Warner's Safe Kidney Cure, Mother Winslow's Soothing 
Syrup, and hundreds of other widely advertised articles 
for which I soon acquired a hearty contempt and was 
probably the first newspaper man in America to cut out 
patent medicine advertisements because I had chronic 
headache and indigestion which the medical fraternity 
told me I had "inherited" from my mother, and which 
neither prescription nor patent dope helped; also because I 
found they were not reliable in the matter of paying bills. 
After about two years during which I acquired consider- 
able practical information and a greater ambition, but 
found that good health would be my greatest need, I sold 
my interest and went westward to the neighborhood of 
Cincinnati, where I did type setting and other newspaper 
work while I studied orthodox medicine in order to find 
what all others I knew had failed to do. I studied medicine 
on the same critical plan that a proof reader in the printing 

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office does his work. For instance, on one occasion our 
alleged teacher of ophthalmology, who was about to 
operate on a case of cross eyes, told us the cause was 
pWalysis of the sixth nerve, of the turning eye. My 
curiosity got the better of me and I covered the fixing eye, 
asking the boy if he could see with the other, when he turned 
it out most naturally and I ejaculated, without any thought 
of being offensive to the doctor, " that's a hell of a case of 
paralysis." It did give offense, the doctor didn't operate, 
but roasted me and I apologized. Really that event was 
the cause of my discovering, seven years later, what the 
cause o£ cross eyes is and how to fix them without operation. 
When I had acquired all the instructions and misinforma- 
tion I felt I had the capacity for and with many of my 
fellow students was about to take my departure, I was 
asked very cordially by one of our old surgeons, where I 
expected to practice. I told him in a newspaper office as 
that was my trade and profession and that I hadn't learned 
enough about medicine to fortify me to look a sheep in the 
face and give it the dope I had been taught. Of course 
my frankness gave offense and I lost favor, if any was ever 
due me from those people. 

After several years more of newspaper work, with the 
incidental headaches and indigestion, I gave it up and came 
to Chicago in the fall of 1891, to take charge of a small 
wholesale optical house for some relatives who could sell 
goods but lacked knowledge of bookkeeping and such other 
work as I could do very well. Incidentally I decided to 
qualify myself to talk optics to our customers, so I pur- 
chased a lot of text books and took some alleged courses, 
all of which I found disappointing because neither the books 
nor the teachers gave evidence of knowing anything 
about physical optics, hence the rest of their teachings 
must be doubly wrong. Applying myself after the manner 
I worked in the printing office, combining what I had 
learned about anatomy and physiology, I soon discovered 

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how nerve strain through the eyes could cause headache 
and even involve other functions, such as the digestive 
apparatus. With the assistance of my office boy, under 
instructions, I found a considerable defect and corrected 
it, determining to wear the glasses constantly for at least 
thirty days. My headaches disappeared the first day 
and have never returned. My office boy was blind in one 
eye and was cross-eyed. I figured some more and decided 
the cause in such cases as his was the same kind of defect I 
had, with other combinations sufficient to cause nervous 
spasm, and, his eyes not being mates, naturally exhibited 
the symptom. My common sense told me if I would break 
down that spasm his eyes would straighten themselves. 
I fixed him in two weeks and in later years gave him a 
training so that he is in practice today in Chicago. Later 
I found that while glasses stopped the headache they did 
not fix the indigestion and newspaper instinct suggested 
the investigation of food quality and quantity, the which I 
did most effectively as the sequel has shown during more 
than twenty-five years last past. 

So many new things came up that I wanted to know and 
couldn't learn, I decided, in the fall of 1893, to open a real 
school of ophthalmology, hoping that it would yield 
remuneration enough to support me and my family while 
I studied more of that subject and others. The money came 
in with the students, but so did expenses, and they clung 
together so persistently that in figuring recently on my 
experience for the last twenty-six years, compared with 
John D. Rockefeller's, who started the Chicago University 
the same year I started my school, I found the following: 
he was a very rich man in 1893 and has spent on his school 
fifty million dollars but is still very rich; while my school 
has cost me half a million, I started a poor man financially 
and have held my own but I have the satisfaction of know- 
ing that my efforts have turned out about five thousand 
good doctors, ophthalmological and otherwise, who are 

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relieving human suffering every day and are treating at 
least two per cent of the entire population of the United 
States every year; they are practicing rational methods 
and succeeding with cases who have been pronounced 
"chronics" and "incurables" by the orthodox doctors and 
their imitators. 

Naturally, when I acquired health I yearned for news- 
paper work but I soon found that I had something that 
beat it. I had a cause to present to the suffering world 
but there was no promise of fortune in it. In 1894 I pub- 
lished a little book on Optics and in 1898 I launched a 
larger tme. In 1900 I started a monthly journal which was 
continued for ten years; I also wrote several more books 
and tackled almost all subjects in my paper, particularly 
those in which the public should be protected from Medical 
and other grafters such as politicians and like conspira- 
tors. In 1910 my work was piling up on me to such an 
extent that I ceased publishing my first paper and began 
publishing quarterly, "Mature Medicine," which has been 
continued ever since and will be so long as I am able to 
furnish the copy. It is published in large quantities, for 
free circulation, but in order that we may not impose upon 
anybody by giving them too many copies and in order that 
we may make a wider distribution, we established a "Must 
List" on which we put the names of those who want to 
receive copies of each issue and remit twenty-five cents for 
a year or a dollar for several years. 

My original newspaper training, coupled with over forty 
years of experience has made me competent to continue 
to judge the character of men and their methods, news- 
papers and their lack of methods, and a few other matters 
to which I have given expression heretofore and to which 
I shall give much attention in the future in "Mature 
Medicine" and in books. 

In July, 1913, I printed in 50,000 copies of "Mature 
Medicine" sworn testimony that George H. Simmons, 

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then secretary of the A. M. A. (Medical Trust) and still 
editor of its paper, by virtue of the rascality of the "com- 
mittee" employing him, is an ex-homeopathic advertising 
quack and abortionist, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and was 
made a "regular" by Rush Medical College for 12 days 
attendance. I mailed 20,000 copies to members of the 
American Medical Association and it cost about 7,000 
members; George was dethroned as secretary at the next 
meeting, but, by the unvirtue of Bossism, has been retained 
as editor of the Journal, and, possibly, other devilment. 

There was some talk of suing me for libel, in imitation of 
what the newspaper crowd did in 1908, when they made 
Mayor Busse and some courts and lawyers first-class 
"goats," the exposure of which is coming now. But the 
failure in the Busse instance made them consult real 
lawyers who told them I was probably familiar with 
Chapter 38, Sec. 179, Illinois Statues: "Justification: In 
all prosecutions for libel, the truth, when published with 
good motives and for justifiable ends, shall be sufficient 
defense." There was no libel suit and there will be none 
that will not be met with the damnedest fight its promoters 
ever imagined. 

There is on now a dastardly attempt to control the 
Constitutional Convention, to be held in January. It is 
my intention to tell truths about some of the characters 
I know, if they attempt some things I have heard they in- 
tend to do. I know a lot of Masons who violate their 
obligations and decency in general in order to promote 
individual powers. Governor Frank O. Lowden has not 
only violated his oath of office in his animosity toward me 
and the cause of Medical Freedom, but he has forfeited his 
Masonic honor, probably, to get the thirty-third degree. 
I count my years of membership as my degrees, and I am 
just completing my thirty-eighth. I will force Lowden's 
respect, even if it only exhibits as fear. 

The Chicago City Health Department is run by John 

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Dill Robertson, an Electic who was graduated _from a 
branch of Loyola University, a Catholic institution, yet 
he is listed in the Medical Trust directory as a member of 
the despicable society. He appears to be popular with the 
Tribune, Daily News and other daily papers, which have 
long been exploiters of every attempt to frighten the 
people into vaccination and general serum medication 
even when the Supreme Court of the state has forbidden 
school board practices with reference to vaccination. Now 
Robertson is proposing an anti-smoke campaign in which 
he is enlisting a lot of butt-in-ski women and he is boasting 
through the papers that lawyers have told him he has 
great powers. He is also reported to be a Mason and I am 
going to do my part to keep him in his place by due expos- 
ure when he deserves it, if I have to print the entire Masonic 
Ritual. He is a politician and holds his eight-thousand- 
dollar-a-year position by appointment of Mayor Thomp- 
son who has been elected twice under the frantic opposition 
of the Tribune and Daily News, two newspapers which 
are, and have been, robbing the city school children of 
something like fifty thousand dollars a year each under the 
leases of the ground their buildings are on. To illustrate 
the character of these papers I am going to drop back 
eleven years and show what happened when I attacked 
those newspapers and their gang in 1908 by printing and 
circulating the following circular, inspired by President 
Roosevelt's attack upon Governor Haskell of Oklahoma 
whom he charged as being an immoral man, unfit for a 
position on the Democratic Finance Committee, because 
he had been in the employ of the Standard Oil Co. and also 
for reasons made obvious in the circular, in one paragraph 
of which it will be noted that I stated I was fully aware 
that in dealing with such a gang I was taking no small 
risk. Following the circular reproduced as a reminiscence, 
I will show what the newspaper trust attempted to do to 
me, and incidentally will show that the gang included not 

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only those named in the circular but judges of the courts, 
some of whom are still on the bench, the bar association 
and others. Here is a copy of the circular except the last 
page which was a half-tone picture destroyed by the chief 
of police who illegally confiscated editions of my paper and 
as many of the circulars as he and his police could get hold 
of: 

A FEW NASTY FACTS. 

President Roosevelt and the Republicans of Chicago, and the 
Nation, should know that: 

Fred A. Busse, the "high priest and chief works of the Republican 
party in Cook County," according to the Chicago Tribune, 
is a moral leper. 

The Chicago Tribune, Record-Herald and Daily News are equally as 
bad. They protect Busse in his devilment, and he lets them 
run the city. 

They know that the said Fred A. Busse, late Roosevelt appointee 
to the Postmastership of Chicago, and now Mayor of Chicago 
by virtue of the manipulation of said newspaper trust, has 
been proved to be a thug and saloon bum- — they know that 

Busse's latest escapade has been to disgrace a fairly respectable 
colored family by marrying one of the daughters — he being 
her third husband. 

This same Busse is, by virtue of Governor Deneen's appointment, 
Chairman of the State Republican Finance Committee. 

On the same committee, and also on the National Republican 
Committee, are Fred A. Upham and Roy O. West, members 
of the Board of Review of Cook County, 111. 

This Board of Review reduced the personal taxes of the millionaires 
over six millions of dollars this year, hence they are just the 
people to be on a Republican finance committee. 

While they reduced the taxes of the millionaires, they raised the 
taxes of the poor. In the Tribune, Sept. 24th, John S. Coates 
writes a protest, saying that he is taxed more on the contents 
of his flat than the owner of the building is taxed for the build- 
ing, and swears he will not pa}' it. 

We wonder if President Roosevelt will ask for the resignations of 
these scoundrels while he is demanding that Democratic com- 
mittee members resign. 



To the Decent Citizenship of Chicago, Illinois, and the Country at 
Large : 
When bold, impudent corruption passes the limit angle it becomes 
a matter of necessity that some decent citizen take the initiative in 
bringing the matter to a head. Now, therefore, I, Charles Mc- 
Cormick, No. 2100 Prairie Avenue, Independent Candidate for 
Representative in Congress from the First District of Illinois, 
submit the following for the consideration of the voters of the dis~ 

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trict, city, state and country, being fully aware that in dealing 
with such a gang I am taking no small risk, but being fully 
prepared for anything they may do, I am proceeding deliberately, 
and there will be several more doses before election day. 

1. The daily press of Chicago is in control of a Republico- 
Democratic Newspaper Machine that stops at nothing to accom- 
plish its ends. It whipped the Council into line, and turned the 
streets over to the City Railway Companies, in spite of a 12 to 1 
vote of the people against the proposition. It manipulates both 
Party Machines and gives offices only to those whom it can control, 
regardless of the characters of said persons. As a part of its plan 
to debauch the public it ordered its Aldermen to vote a salary of 
$18,000 a year to the Mayor of Chicago, and fooled the people 
into making the length of the Mayor's term four years; then it 
manipulated President Roosevelt's friend, Postmaster Fred A. 
Busse, into the office of Mayor. 

2. Who is Busse? It has been proved by the oaths of reputable 
citizens that said Fred A. Busse is a thug; that he is a frequenter of 
dives. It is shown herewith that he recently disgraced a respectable 
colored family by marrying one of the daughters, he being her 
third husband. Self-respecting colored people have no use for him, 
yet said Busse was declared by the Tribune (first column, first page, 
Aug. 20th, 1908) to be "the High Priest and Chief Works of the 
Republican party in Cook County" and in the same paper, Sept. 
23d, it was recorded that Governor Deneen had selected his "Hon- 
or" as Chairman of the Republican State Finance Committee. He 
is also an associate of F. A. Upham on the National Republican 
Finance Committee. It is to be presumed that if "Thug" Busse 
and "Board of Review" Upham cannot get money for the Repub- 
licans it will be because there is none in circulation. 

3. This man Upham, by the way, with Roy O. West, another 
Republican Committeeman, both members of the Board of Review 
of Cook County, Illinois, reduced the personal assessments of the 
big rich over six millions of dollars this year, while the comparative- 
ly poor had to fight to prevent their assessments being raised. When 
I fought a raise of 50 per cent they attacked me through the Trust 
Papers, and sought to discredit me in the community by alleging 
that I exceeded my rights in writing to those rascals that I would 
"be damned if I'd stand for the raise." West had the impudence 
to^ask me if I was not "afraid of Uncle Sam" when I called at the 
Board rooms to demand my rights, and the papers declared under 
scare heads that "neither Uncle Sam nor the Board of Review hold 
terrors for Dr. Charles McCormick, President of McCormick Neu- 
rological College, No. 2100 Prairie avenue." It is a safe bet they 
haven't, nor have "Thug" Busse, "Big Stick" Roosevelt, Daily 
News Lawson, Tribune Patterson, or any others. My mud batter- 
ies are loaded to the muzzles — let them touch 'em off if they dare. 
I have not lived in Chicago seventeen years and been blind and 
deaf. If they want me to cut loose, let them say the word. This is 
only a comparatively random shot. 

4. To the public particularly: You haven't seen any scare 
heads in the newspapers telling of Mayor Busse's escapades, have 
you? Neither have you seen any scare heads, nor any other kind 

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of a head, telling the truth about the dangers of vaccination. But 
you have seen scare heads telling of the dangers of turning this 
country over politically, thus taking it out of the hands of the 
rascals who are being exposed here. The Healy-Wayman contest 
for the State's Attorney's nomination is a sample of the despera- 
tion of the Republic machine. The Democratic machine is just 
as bad. In the First District Martin B. Madden is the Represen- 
tative in Congress of this gang. He may be a very nice man, but 
it must be extremely doubtful in view of the company he keeps. 
M. L. Mandable is the Democratic machine nominee. He is a good 
fellow, as I know, but he is without political experience, while I 
have had thirty years of it as a newspaper and professional man. 
Inasmuch as I have proved my capacity in the last fifteen years by 
whipping the Medical Trust single-handed and establishing an 
independent school of medicine with more than one thousand 
graduates, practicing in almost every State in the Union, and as I 
desire to kill two birds with one stone, viz., help wipe out a political 
oligarchy and get another whack at the meanest trust of all — the 
Medical Trust — in Congress, where it proposes to seek legislation 
giving the old drug schools an absolute monopoly to traffic in human 
ills, I present myself as an Independent Candidate and ask that 
you scratch the names of the candidates for Congress on your 
tickets in the First District and give me your votes, pledging you 
that if elected I will be found always on the side of outspoken 
justice to all. 

If elected to Congress and opportunity offers I shall vote for: 

1. National Bank Deposit Guarantees, because the Govern- 
ment demands guarantees, for its deposits with national banks and 
I believe individuals and firms should have the same protection. 
There are 18 national bankers in Ft. Leavenworth prison today. 

2. I will vote for Postal Savings Banks, as the most absolutely 
sure protection for the public's savings. 

3. I will vote for all reasonable Trust regulation and imprison- 
ment of those guilty of Violations thereof. 

4. I will fight to the last ditch that "the citizens of each state 
shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens 
in the several states." 

A postal or letter of encouragement from voters and others wlli 
be thankfully received. 

Will President Roosevelt be as keen for Busse and Upham to re- 
sign from National and State Committees and from the office of 
mayor as he has been for Senator Foraker to keep out of the cam- 
paign or for Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, to cease taking part 
in Bryan's campaign? 

The ten introductory sub-headings were sufficient in 
themselves to show that I had no particular spite at any- 
body and it is a fact that I never saw the mayor mentioned 
nor all of the others. The first thing the newspaper gang 
did was to select the expression, "moral leper," as applied 
to the mayor, for which they secured from a gang grand 

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jury headed by Wm. J. Strickland, an indictment against 
me for "criminal libel.' ' All that came of this was that 
after several months of skullduggery and newspaper write- 
ups, when they found that I would fight the case to the 
. finish and disgrace the city of Chicago, their lawyers either 
bought or bulldozed mine, and by a trick combined with 
democratic judge George Kersten they took me before him 
one *norning and without my consent plead guilty to "crim- 
inal libel," upon which the said judge, after asking casually 
if I consented and being informed by me that I was the 
victim of a conspiracy, he assessed a fine of $50.00 with 
$20.00 costs, which I paid because, having a large class in 
my school who would be inconvenienced by me taking 
several weeks' time in court, I preferred to spare them. 
Also the attorneys and the court pledged me that I would 
not be molested further by the mayor or his friends. This 
because early in the game I had been assaulted with intent 
to murder by three individuals whom the newspapers 
declared were my students and whom Inspector Wheeler, 
of the police force, and others, told various stories about 
which the papers published. While they were doing this 
a sergeant of police who had suffered indignities at the hands 
of Capt. O'Brien and others, informed me that my assail- 
ants were Billy McKenzie, Pat Loftus and Harry Smith, 
the first two being police officers, the third being an attache 
of the mayor's office, and all under orders to do me up. 
There were no other charges of libel from any of the gang 
named, and it will be noted that after naming Busse as the 
"moral leper" I said "the Chicago Tribune, Record-Herald, 
and Daily News are equally as bad." The whole truth is 
that they all knew they were in danger of exposure and 
made Mr. Busse their goat. I was not really a candidate 
for Congress because Representative Madden has always 
suited me, but the mention of him in Paragraph No. 4 
was made to give him a pointer on the Republican gang he 

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was dealing with. The last paragraph in the circular will 
explain how Mr. Roosevelt was in it. 

I am still living in spite of a lot of threats, while Mr. 
Roosevelt is dead, Mr. Tribune Patterson is dead, Mr. 
Busse is dead, as is also his chief of police, who instigated 
outrageous acts against me, State's Attorney Wayman 
committed suicide to escape punishment for his acts, and 
the gang has generally gone to pieces. 

Now we come to the present "Nasty Facts": It has long 
been known to me that the newspapers were controlled by 
Big Interests. It was discovered during the war that they 
made a special deal in March, 1915, and Representative 
Callaway has made it a part of the Congressional Record 
that 179 of the big papers sold controlling interests to the 
Morgan crowd who edited them to suit themselves. But 
that isn't a marker to the medico-religio business grab 
about to be presented, including newspaper weaknesses or 
deliberate criminality. 

First, the newspapers love power, and, knowing the 
affinity between the churches and the orthodox medical 
profession, they do anything to stand in with them. 

Second, the churches traffic in souls; orthodox medicine 
traffics in bodies. Hence they combine to run hospitals 
because they can get newspaper advertising for nothing 
and also keep the people terrified until they easily become 
victims 

In order to get business the medical colleges make a 
specialty of "Internships" as one of the essentials of gradua- 
tion. Then the surgeons who take cases to the hospitals for 
convenience or for special mercenary purposes are the large 
producers of business. 

The Catholic Church controls, probably, more hospitals 
than all others but they have imitators in the other churches 
as the Presbyterian, in Chicago for example. Then there 
are the cheap skate "business" hospitals who permit any 
old kind of work. In the Catholic hospitals are to be found 

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not only sisters and priests, but confessionals, chapels, 
various typical figures suggestive of their fanaticism. 
These institutions are always in charge of church authori- 
ties and the whole thing is a business deal as the sequel 
will show. 

All hospitals are beset with nurses, male and female, 
and they are apportioned out according to the profits they 
bring. One of the most outrageous features of the nurse 
business is that in which male nurses are being exploited 
upon several points of graft through the papers and other- 
wise, particularly where they are on tap for transient 
hospital patients and others at $35.00 per week, and room 
and board, when as a matter of fact they are either common 
bullies or are the rankest sap-heads, generally both at inter- 
vals. This is a situation all over the world but particularly 
in the United States. 

My recent experience is a typical one, hence its recita- 
tion will be valuable to all who want to know what will 
happen to them under similar circumstances: 

July 10th I met with an accident in my home, fracturing 
my skull by falling from a step ladder. I was committed to 
the offices of an orthodox surgeon. 

First, I was taken to Mercy Hospital by an undertaker's 
wagon for $5.00 — about seven weeks later a Yellow Taxi 
brought three of us away, the same distance for 85 cents. 
At the hospital I was put under ether seven hours after the 
accident and when it had been decided I didn't have a 
chance in a thousand. Proceeding along speculative lines 
they opened up my thatch on the left side, quite a space 
above my ear, and found some blood clots which they re- 
moved. A little later I showed signs of recovery and after- 
wards, according to them, I broke all records for that 
class of injuries. By the next morning I was in Room 226 
at the hospital and in line for the grafters, first excessive 
rates for room without conveniences, second a hold-up by 
the bullies and soft-heads who pretended to be male 

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nurses. As I began to regain consciousness from the ether, 
my instinct of self-preservation began to work and I there- 
fore came in contact with violence from the aforesaid 
bullies and soft-heads, the which I resented and fought until 
I have established quite a reputation in Mercy Hospital 
and the neighborhood; I also came out of it the worse for 
wear because in my struggles against handcuffs and other 
outrages, injury was done my arms, particularly my good 
right arm, from which I will not recover speedily. Al- 
together I have what I would regard for anyone else as good 
grounds for a big damage suit. 

There is one feature that impressed me more strongly 
than any other, and that is that the orthodox doctor who 
contributes patients to the hospital, and I understand 
there are about 50 of them feeding Mercy, is really a stool- 
pigeon for a system of graft and a line of treatment follow- 
ing operation which often makes it worthless. The sur- 
geons are often good fellows in themselves, although I 
am not willing to agree that their methods are correct or 
even rational. One of their weaknesses is orthodoxy, and 
some of them are fanatical as any churchman. For exam- 
ple I was a whole month in Mercy before I came back to 
myself so that I knew who I was, and I have no recollection 
of my battles, but, having been a student of the mental 
and physiological arrangement of the nervous system, 
when I did come to myself partially I began to take meas- 
ures and that is how I came to analyze the male nurse and 
nurses generally. One of my surgeons, whom I make all 
allowance for under the circumstances, came in to me one 
day and showed the usual orthodox understanding of my 
mental condition by telling me, after the nurse had com- 
plained of my conduct toward him, in denouncing him as an 
unmitigated ass in his pretenses of wisdom and capacity, 
that if I didn't behave myself and do as the nurse directed 
he would send me to Kankakee or Dunning Asylum. Now 
the Doctor was so orthodox he believed I was crazy and he 

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could scare me. We had a big spat right there when I 
promised to get an attorney and fight them; but after he 
departed for the day I decided upon other tactics, and the 
next day had a laugh over the matter with him and as a 
result succeeded in a few days in getting an order from him 
to the hospital to permit my departure. You see, my friends, 
they have the scheme so arranged that when a patient is 
committed to one of these hospitals by contributing sur- 
geons,, he or she is regarded as practically imprisoned. Of 
course being a fighter, I could have waited a few days until 
I could put up a battle and then got up and walked out, 
but I preferred to use diplomacy to make my expose all the 
more complete. I came out on release by order of my 
surgeon on the 41st day. I think the operation was a 
mistake as I am considerably disfigured from it; and I 
believe I would have recovered without the injuries by the 
alleged nurses had I been treated by my own emergency 
methods; but as the orthodox surgeons know nothing of 
those, I forgive them. The expense incident to the 41 days 
is what will interest the public who may be victims and 
should interest the officials whose duty it is to protect 
the public against the colossal system of graft which is 
rampant all over this country in the name of hospitals. 
The surgeons got $350.00; Mercy Hospital got $308.50 
from me; just how much they got from the nurses I have no 
means of knowing, except that when I got those fellows 
to confessing they stated various amounts of percent- 
ages claimed from them by the hospitals and from the 
agencies who placed them after charging them a registra- 
tion fee of $2.00 each. The pirates who pose as nurses, 
when they are not telling fairy stories about inventions 
they are masters of and about what they have done in the 
U. S. service, got $425.00. The undertaker who trans- 
ported me to the joint got $5.00, making a grand total of 
$1,088.50. When this is considered against the damage 
done me and with the knowledge that according to their 

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own confessions whatever good has come out of it has been 
entirely due, not to their skill, but to my eternal come- 
back-a-tiveness, it makes a clear case against medico- 
religio-business tactics and if the authorities do not put 
on the screws the victims and their relatives should do so 
in a manner which will put the scoundrels out of business. 

As I have remarked before, the surgeons who are the 
decoy-ducks for such institutions are often good fellows 
personally, but they are so obsessed by orthodoxy that they 
do such things thoughtlessly often. Of course, no doubt, 
a lot of them must be as deliberately crooked as the people 
who founded the whole outrageous scheme. If there is 
one honest newspaper of any consequence in the country 
it should take this matter up and go the limit with it. 

I filed a complaint for disbarment against my attorneys 
Lynn and House 1908; after considerable correspondence 
I was informed by John L. Fogle, attorney for the grievance 
committee, that my complaint was not sufficient for 
action on their part. I still have a lot of correspondence 
in one letter of which I notified Mr. Fogle that I suspected 
my charges would be passed because I already had abun- 
dant reason for believing "the whole damned bar associa- 
tion is as corrupt as Lynn, in his conversation with me, 
charged the judges with being.' ' Early in the game I had 
a letter from Richard Lloyd Jones, editor of Collier's 
Weekly, asking me for detailed information as the matter 
proceeded, and I still have a copy of the final letter. I wrote 
him telling of the outcome of the case and giving him 
Lynn's story which may yet make interesting reading. 
Part of it was given to Mr. Taft while he was President, 
when the Tribune and Daily News were boosting one of 
the judges for a Federal appointment, for which I received 
a note of thanks and a pledge that the man would not be 
appointed, which he was not. 

As I am a "graduate of the case" with more than forty 
years' experience, I am a competent judge of newspaper 

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situations and other experiences have shown me their 
criminal side. Just now we have an illustration: On Sept. 
25th the Hearst sheets were wildly proclaiming "Garrity 
will stay, Faherty says." On the Saturday before Police 
Lieut. John F. Sullivan, having resigned from the force, 
because of dissatisfaction, took advantage of the weak- 
lings who were running the Tribune and ran a column 
interview, first column, first page of the second section in 
which he said what I have always contended: "Politicians 
controlled the police when I joined, twenty-nine years ago, 
and they still do. It isn't the policemen, it's the system. 
Special privileges shown negroes by order of politicians 
bred the hatred that brought on the race riot. The young 
fellow who joins the force now must do so because of lazi- 
ness or larceny." I haven't space to print the whole story 
but add a sample from it because it refers back to 1908: 
"Why, I remember when Busse was mayor, Paddy 
Hogan and I were working out in the bureau. An order 
comes in one day transferring Paddy who was detailed to 
horse thieves. I said to P. D. O'Brien, detective chief 
then, 'it's a damn shame; Paddy's doing good work.' 
P. D. agreed. He told me later that he went to Chief 
Shippey's office and finding him out walked into Busse's 
office and told him his views. Busse, he told me after- 
ward, turned to a phone and called up Roger Sullivan. 
Seems Paddy had bothered somebody who knew a friend 
of Sullivan's. '0, to the devil with that fellow' Busse 
told Sullivan after a conversation and Paddy stayed. 
But they finally got him." This in reference to Paddy's 
discharge the other day by the civil service commission. 
Here's another one from Sullivan. "It's the same all over. 
A policeman takes a case into court and the city prosecutor, 
usually a political worker in that very district, tells the 
judge, '0, this lad's all right, I know him,' and it's all over. 
If the prosecutor didn't look after his men neither he nor 
the judge could ever hope to keep in with the organiza- 

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tion." And here's another which applies proper titles: 
"A saloon in the shadow of the city hall at the time it 
closed was the headquarters for all the pay roll robberies 
in Chicago and as far east as Cleveland. Across the street 
from the detective bureau the politicians and their high- 
binders knew of and even directed the jobs. O, the high- 
binders are running things with as much rein as they did 
in the days of police inspectors. I am quitting and glad 
I'm through." 

Incidentally any farmer may find whether a newspaper 
is owned by the "highbinders" by looking for the follow- 
ing paragraph, which is always headed "Member of the 
Associated Press," the paragraph always reads the same 
because written by a crooked lawyer for the crowd: "The 
Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for re- 
publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not 
otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news 
published herein. All rights of republication of special 
dispatches herein also are reserved." 

But not all papers are owned by the interests. The 
Mobile Register, in its one hundred and sixth year of con- 
secutive publication, hands the medical trust in Alabama 
the following editorial Tuesday, Sept. 16th, which I re- 
print in full in order to encourage emulation of the example : 

WORK OF THE DOCTORS' TRUST. 

The doctors' trust bill proposes the regulation of barbers in fine 
shape. No barber must do this and no barber must do that; but 
he is to do thus and so, and wash his hands every time he does it. 
The only thing missing is an injunction to the barber not to talk. 

Meanwhile and for forty years, the doctor's trust has been in 
charge of the sanitation of the state of Alabama, and mosquitoes, 
flies, malaria and filth diseases are about as prevalent as ever. It is 
true that the doctors are making a lively ado here about screens to 
keep out the flies, but when it comes to stopping the flies at their 
source, namely, in the stables and other favorite breeding places, the 
ordinances, as far as has been observed, are a dead letter. It is an 
elegant house of cards the doctors have built for themselves, but 
of its real value to Alabama as a preventer of disease the less said 
the better. 

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structure is the absence in the medical association of any sense of 
responsibility. Being a law unto itself, in the sense that it is self 
instituted and self-operative, and accountable to no one, it works 
or not as it sees fit; and generally not. 

It is a powerful political affair, however, and whereas it doesn't 
do much for the state it seldom fails to get the state to do much for 
it. The association is asking now for "more." Will it succeed? 
We hope not. 

Now, in closing this chapter I want to remind the public 
and the "highbinder" politicians that my paper, "Mature 
Medicine," will continue for more years, beginning with 
January, and that all should remember "A chiePs amang 
ye takin' notes, an', faith, he'll prent it." Our college is the 
publisher of the paper and it is circulated freely every 
quarter. Any who desire to receive it regularly should get 
their names on our "Must List" by remitting twenty-five 
cents annually or one dollar every several years. We appre- 
ciate these remittances for two reasons: first, they tell us 
some people are deeply interested; second, it gives us that 
much more money to blow distributing the balance of each 
issue to names selected from Bradstreet's and other direc- 
tories. 



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CHAPTER X. 
Straws Show How the Wind Blows. 

"Keep 'em scared." This appears to be the slogan of all 
the dominating powers from Uncle Sam's "vocational 
education" board on down the line. And they are all 
working for "Religion" and "Health." So far as I have 
been able to discover they are all dyed with the same 
devilish stuff: Profit for the favored ones at all costs to 
the public. First, they want to steer everybody to their 
orthodox medical schools and even propose that Uncle 
Sam shall pay the bills; second, they have official food 
controllers beginning with Mr. Hoover, a sample Califor- 
nia specimen, all of whom are out on the principle, "do 
others before they do you"; third, the hue and cry from 
alleged "health" officers with reference to the "flu," vaccina- 
tion and other general foolishness; fourth, the public 
conspiracy of chief crooked politicians in both parties to 
divide the spoils of office without any reference to the 
voters or the law. 

It is easy to see why religion and politics are worked 
together: they are both alike, crooked. The President of 
the United States wrote some books several years before 
he mixed his religion and politics, in which he apparently 
criticized the power of a President ; but within the past few 
months he has shown by his conduct that it was not criti- 
cism, in putting it into practice in negotiating a treaty 
without taking the Senate or the public into his confidence. 
He even went so far as to stir up rebellion and some senators 
have charged him with betrayal of his country. The 
evidence is pretty much all against him, and, were it not 
for the nasty fact that politicians are too nearly all alike 

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I would advocate the permanent retirement of the Demo- 
cratic party. A sage long ago remarked: "Coming events 
cast their shadows before," and as I see the shadows it is 
proper to remark that what we have seen in the way of 
strikes, riots, profiteering and political skullduggery in 
the last few years isn't a circumstance to what is going to 
happen within the next twenty-four months. 

It is reported that Coal Oil Johnny Rockefeller has 
donated 20,000,000 dollars to be distributed among the 
orthodox medical schools and that much of it is coming to 
Chicago, probably to Rush, because it is affiliated with the 
Chicago University on which John has already spent 
fifty millions. I believe I have shown in another chapter 
that in the twenty-six years that old robber has been 
squandering money my school has earned and used up only 
half of one million, but has done things. It is proper to 
add here that it has had to fight for honest principles all 
along the line. More than twenty years ago we whipped 
a combination of the Illinois State University, the North- 
western and the Chicago Universities before the Illinois 
legislature and cut out the first named's appropriation for 
two years. After that whipping President Harper died; 
we chased Henry Wade Rogers of the Northwestern and 
the chap who was then in charge of the State University 
to other parts of the country. There are others in various 
parts of the land who need and fear exposure more than 
all else they can imagine and they are about to get a lot 
of it which they cannot suppress or enjoin. When people 
are practicing things which are inimical to justice and even 
of a character which is traitorous it becomes imperative 
that it be exposed in detail. I have made exposures in the 
past and murder was attempted upon me. I pulled through 
and feel more competent than ever before; hence it cannot 
be later than January, 1920, when our quarterly paper, 
"Mature Medicine," will be widely circulating facts with 
proofs that no President, governor, mayor, alderman, or 

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"health officer" can survive. In order to be sure of this 
I appeal to every reader of this book who suffers indignity 
at the hands of any of them, individually or collectively, 
to supply particulars to me, supported by affidavits of wit- 
nesses wherever possible. It makes no difference what 
part of the country nor how prominent the perpetrators, I 
want the facts so I can give them to the public. This 
applies to alleged boards of health, school boards, direc- 
tors of education, etc. 

Among the medical humbugs is the " quarantine," em- 
ployed for advertising purposes, but while the common 
people are made to suffer inconvenience the deadly doc- 
tors are running from quarantined homes into others and 
if there was such a thing as contagion it would mean dis- 
aster. The public answer to a quarantine should be to 
shoot the doctor that comes out of a quarantined home and 
enters an unquarantined one. The only thing that equals 
the bombastity of the average political health officer is 
his personal cowardice and when the public hears the 
bombast let it prepare ammunition for the scoundrel. 

The average "trained nurse" has been found to be only 
trainable because she hasn't any sense. This applies to 
the male animal as well, who is a bully and a coward as 
well as a grafter with all the rest of it. They all use ther- 
mometers, catheters, stethoscopes, sphygmomanometers, 
hypodermics and other accessories which keep them strong 
with the doctors and the hospital grafters. None of these 
instruments are worth three hoots in hades as a matter of 
fact. In this connection the entire kit of the average old 
school doctor is as worthless as his orthodox education. 
Just think of it as one of the facts connected with old school 
education: It is generally known that at least one-third of 
all such graduates are addicted to the constant use of 
habit-forming drugs. Now you may understand why John 
Rockefeller wants to spend money spreading old school 
medical education. 

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Operations are performed every day by alleged surgeons 
under the protection of alleged practice acts which they 
wouldn't dare perform if they were not licensed according 
to the rules of the medical trust. Most of these surgeons 
do not know anatomy or anything else. My own case is 
one of the many proofs I can and will produce: The sur- 
geons who put a drainage tube into my head evidently 
mistook me for one of Rockefeller's artesian wells. 

But doctors do not monopolize damn-foolishness, and 
they are not as offensive under any circumstances as the 
grouchy religious devil who is in the habit of going about 
attempting to be his brother's keeper. I happen to know 
some of this class who have made money out of their reli- 
gion by real estate and banking deals or some equally 
profitable scheme. I do not know one who with all his 
tricks has made as much money with his brains and his 
means as I have made honestly. They held on to theirs 
and mine all got away, but I have accomplished things 
which enabled people to do the same thing. I have not 
spent my time hunting faults in people as have my prohibi- 
tion acquaintance, hence I am free from the worry which 
they have brought on themselves. I laugh at them and tell 
them I have drank more whiskey than they but I have 
never made as much. They are all infernal eaters and what 
they usually regard as their religion I have found upon 
analysis to be indigestion. I have a life-long friend who is 
from July to Christmas younger than I who has wasted a 
lot of time doing two things which I have never tried to 
break him of, namely: praying for my salvation and work- 
ing for national and international prohibition, and I am 
sure that he has never found the happiness in his sixty-one 
years that I have found in a few months at a time. 

This hobby of one set of people attempting to dominate 
all others and limit their liberties in eating, drinking, 
dressing or undressing has always appeared to my natural 
mind as unworthy of indulgence. I have been a news- 

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paper man or a doctor all my life. I know a great variety of 
people. I know one man who has been advertised, ridi- 
culed, abused and lied about so much that nearly every- 
one in the United States knows him and many regard him 
as any thing from a pompadour-haired poet to a wholesale 
dealer in white slavery. I know him and have known 
him and I would trust him with my money or my life, or 
on any other question involving decency, as far as I would 
trust the most exemplary of his critics who call him "Bath 
House John." He is John Coughlin, first ward Alderman, 
Chicago. 

Notable among the American curiosities are the "world's 
greatest newspapers" with their "health" editors, minis- 
terial contributors, their society buds, their fake advertis- 
ing by people who pretend to be foot doctors and fleece 
people out of anywhere from seventeen dollars to one 
hundred dollars, while the same newspaper is persecuting 
some physician who has an office down town but doesn't 
advertise with them. Automatically the time will come 
when respectable newspapers will limit their advertising to 
things that are reasonable and will protect subscribers 
and the public generally by that terrible weapon, Publicity. 
Most of the papers have been utilizing that weapon for 
disreputable purposes and it is only a matter of time until 
they are exposed and entirely discredited. 

This appears to be The Age of Sillies, because of what 
nations and people have done and do and stand for. None 
seem to have learned anything. Each one tries to "do" 
all the others. It is humiliating to people with a little sense 
to have constantly displayed before them those who delight 
in being paraded as prominent citizens, made into briga- 
dier generals, etc. Even the President's physician has 
been made an Admiral — some of us imagine we know 
the reason. The newspapers are exploiting magazines of 
fiction which must be a joke because they haven't contained 
anything but fiction for several years. 

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One of the hopeful happenings of these days is the series 
of periodical race wars which if continued rationally may 
eventually result in extermination of vast numbers when 
the high cost of living will, naturally, go down. 

One thing is quite evident even to the most casual 
observer, that is, pro-germanism is still rampant in this 
country, even the militarism, against which our managers 
pretended to be fighting, has been adopted and promises 
to cut quite a swath because it is easy to make officers and 
get votes and class legislation. 

The Chicago Tribune's "health" editor, who has long been 
a joke, naturally finds all the silliness of the A. M. A. and 
reprints it. One of his latest is that 50 to 80 per cent, 
of American girls suffer from painful menstruation; then 
he goes on with a prescription for drugs even to atropine, 
the common name for which is deadly nightshade. Twenty- 
five years ago I wrote a book in which I declared that nerve 
strain through defective eyes is the primary cause of at 
least 85 per cent, of all human ills. Since that time my 
5,000 graduates have corrected the eyes of thousands of 
women and girls who had long suffered the menstrual 
pains and they relieved every one of them. It is proper 
to add here that Doc Evans was "health" commissioner 
under the notorious Tribune and Daily News mayor, 
Fred Busse, when he drew eight thousand dollars a year for 
serving the medical trust in all the contemptible ways that 
could be imagined. By the way, Chicago borrowed a 
"health" officer from Uncle Sam once. His name was Dr. 
Young, who grew so rambunctious over some of my com- 
ments on his conduct that I had to practically chase him 
out of town. 

We read in local papers frequently reports of the murder 
of doctors; but we do not find similar reports of the murders 
by doctors which are probably much more frequent. Of 
course they have licenses to do it and convictions would 
be rather difficult under existing rules of court procedure. 

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I have had a narrow escape myself recently, but I am 
practically unkillable. When people learn to employ 
drugless doctors, but not the osteo-chiro type, there will be 
a slump in the undertaking business. 

As bad as our American press is I sometimes get an idea 
from its foreign correspondence. Phillip Gibbs, writing 
from Paris, tells what realists the French people are: 
"They face facts squarely and do not camouflage by 
financial hopes or romance. Not even victory covers by 
one grain of dust their realization of the horrors of war. 
Military glory has no meaning to them, except in stern 
duty and the endurance of abominable things." 

He was being waited on in a restaurant by a man wearing 
military decorations and complimented him. The waiter 
turned away for a moment in disgust, then turned and said, 
" Magnificent, bah! it is reward for dirty work. Up to your 
knees in mud, dead bodies everywhere, the stench of blood, 
fear and abomination. It is better to be here serving 
coffee and beer and adding up little figures. It is a better 
job." This is a nice little lesson to our bloviating Americans 
who are organized officially to steer ex-soldiers out of agree- 
able paths after laying down their arms. My school has a 
little proposition before it now which is going to result in a 
general ripping up the back, of Uncle Sam's "vocational 
organization" if a lot of the cooties operating it do not 
change their methods. 

The strike fever has spread to farm hands and the farmers 
are complaining that it goes against the grain with them to 
work 10 or 12 hours a day to feed employes who only work 
six. I have worked on a farm and almost every other 
respectable place in my life. I never had any use for 
unions or strikes and have observed that when carpenters 
were getting from $2 to $3 per day they did more and 
better work, as did also all other mechanics, they lived 
better and were happier. I have also observed that our 
over-dose of foreigners, particularly Skees, Skis, and Witch- 

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es, has been the chief accompaniment of unionism. For 
several years the first printer's union we had in this country- 
was an honorable one, its memberships being guarantees 
of competence. There has been a great change in this in 
the last twenty years. A vast majority of the murders 
committed have been by strikers. 

Illinois is about to have a state Constitutional Conven- 
tion and if it gets through without several first-class hang- 
ings it will only be because a lot of the highbinders have 
seen the handwriting on the wall. It is time that the very 
populous middle class of people who have been ground 
between the two mill stones, capital and labor, get busy 
with shot guns and greased ropes. 

To people of mental capacity the United States comes out 
of the world war in disgrace. First, the outrageous extrav- 
agance during the war; second, the mistreatment of soldiers 
since the war; third, the prices and limitations on sugar 
and other food stuffs right up to the present minute. It 
is worth remarking here that during the war people who 
practiced our teachings always outdid Hoover in limiting 
themselves to sugar and other carbonaceous materials. 
If the Government would utilize its freedom of the press to 
advise the public to investigate our methods there would 
soon be an automatic adjustment of prices on all things. 
Of course this would deprive some greedy government 
officials of their jobs, and the graft that goes with them. 

Senator Hiram Johnson has been greeted in Californy 
as the next president. Why, darn his hypocritical soul, I 
know lots of Californians who think he ought to be in San 
Quinten. 



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CHAPTER XI. 
For Prospective Students and the Public. 

Physics covers the entire field of study of natural laws 
as they relate to all things except organized bodies possessed 
of physiological action. Its chief duality is chemistry and 
mechanics. 

Anatomy (means, literally, "to cut") covers the study 
of the chemical composition and mechanical arrangement 
of the various parts of organized bodies, human and animal. 

Physiology is the reason for anatomy, as anatomy is one 
of the products of physical laws. The word means the 
study of the functions of organized bodies. These func- 
tions are in a measure regulated by physical law, but we 
regard them by rules rather than laws for the reason that 
they represent unfathomable combinations of the laws, 
particularly of chemistry. We calculate to a certainty 
physical questions so long as they relate to unorganized 
bodies, but we can not tell exactly what is going to happen 
when we expose ourselves to atmospheric changes, to 
medicines, or even foods. Hence we might say physiolog}" 
is the study of the exhibits of physical laws in organized 
bodies, particularly of those endowed with extra animal 
intelligence as is the human family. 

Metaphysics carries us a step farther than physiology 
into the vast domain of the causes of human ills because we 
find in the study of physiology a constantly increasing 
uncertainty in our calculations, hence the necessity of 
applying ourselves more carefully to physics and anatomy. 
But even then we find ourselves bewildered by the evident 
presence of an outside influence and have discovered that 
each individual is endowed with more or less mentality which 
consciously and sub-consciously influences the physiologi- 

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cal actions as is evidenced by the effects of anger, joy, 
grief, ambition, upon the heart action, digestion, etc., 
therefore we adopt Aristotle's word "Metaphysics' ' as 
covering the subject of the non-atomic force which acts 
upon physiology conjointly with or antagonistic to physi- 
cal law. We hold that the reason for the antagonism is 
largely due to the early introduction of artificial standards 
of conduct which were substituted for the natural ones 
with the most natural result: Ignorance of the truth, 
theoretical and practical. 

Symptomatology is the study and comparison of normal 
and pathologic exhibits physiologically and mentally. 
We do this by a series of objective and subjective tests, 
some of them diagnostic or theoretic, but most of them 
analytic, hence eminently practical. 

Analysis is the practical procedure of utilizing our 
knowledge of physics, anatomy, physiology, metaphysics 
and symptomatology to arrive at conclusions with refer- 
ence to the mental and physiological conditions of our- 
selves and our patients. We can employ the same general 
principles to arrive at solutions of all problems provided 
our capacity is great enough and we are philosophers — 
lovers of truth — instead of slaves to dogmas which deny 
the right to analyze. 

Therapy is that branch of our work which covers what 
we are to do after we have completed our analysis in order 
to aid the natural laws to resume their ascendancy in an 
orderly manner when there has been confusion as a result 
of the influences described above. Being naturalists, we 
at once return to physics, our guide, for instruction, when 
we find that its chief duality is chemistry and mechanics; 
therefore whatever assistance we render must be either 
chemical or mechanical or both. Other schools of practice 
prescribe from diagnosis and administer artificial remedies 
in so-called "medicine" and when those fail they apply 
operative surgery promising "cures," but we have observed 

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that in cases where the difficulties were really serious 
they always fail. On June 8, 1914, in Los Angeles, Cal., a 
wealthy Chicago lady, Mrs. Purcell, daughter of the late 
Wm. Gray, D. D., for 27 years editor of the Interior, 
an orthodox Presbyterian paper, committeed suicide, 
leaving a note saying that for many years she had been 
fighting for health and after seven fruitless operations she 
had decided to give it up. She had been taking orthodox 
medical treatment too. When we turn to Nature she does 
not tell us anything about the artificial combinations 
forming so-called drugs, except that they are artificial, 
therefore dangerous. In rational chemistry we find the 
duality, inorganic and organic matter; the first is represent- 
ed by water and salts, the salts being combinations of 
elements found in the human body and in vegetable and 
animal life used for food; the organic includes compounds 
represented by what are known as carbohydrates and fats. 
We were the first and are now the only school to employ 
the chemistry of food as a materia-medica. It is much 
more complicated than the materia-medica of the old 
schools because with all their theoretical materia-medica 
as published and exploited in their books on theory and 
practice, physiological chemistry, etc., the old schools 
have only about a dozen "remedies" which they employ 
haphazard in all sorts of cases; viz: Quinine, mercury, 
strychnine, digitalis, nitroglycerine, potassium, phos- 
phorus, iron, sodium, calcium, coal tar products and patent 
medicines, the latter as "advertised only to physicians" 
in medical journals. In mechanics we find as interesting 
though not so complicated instruction as we do in chem- 
istry. It enables us to know our anatomy and physiology 
better. Employing the laws of optics and dynamics we are 
enabled to measure the nervous system so accurately that 
our analysis wins the admiration of all who investigate it. 
In mechanics we find a substitute for old school surgery 
just as we found in chemistry a substitute for old school 

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materia-medica. Our Manual Therapy not only enables 
us to avoid the necessity of removing parts but we 
employ it without possible danger to patients, with- 
out anesthetics, without necessity for hospitals, with- 
out hurting our patients and without injury to ourselves. 
The schools of practice which only employ Manual Therapy 
are as far from the truth as are the drug and surgery schools. 
While not so dangerous in their treatments as the drug 
schools they lack all the essentials of a mature system, 
and they assume, ignorantly, that the causes of all human 
ills are purely mechanical. Like all other one-idea systems 
they will have their day, largely because of the failure of 
the old schools and of the credulity of a public which has 
been trained for ages to believe in "miracles" and "cures." 
Then there are the "Faith healers" who assume, pretend 
to believe and actually teach with reference to human 
ills, that there is no such thing, that all is imaginary, 
some even asserting that nothing is material; and it is a 
fact worthy of more than passing notice that these people, 
who have exhibited a capacity for securing material dollars 
and building material churches free of taxation, have 
actually secured special privileges in the treatment of 
human ills by being exempted from the provisions of 
medical statutes in every state of every "Christian" country. 
Such statutes are insults to Nature and to human intelli- 
gence. They are dogmatism, graft, pure and simple, and 
are contrary to the Constitution of the United States 
which declares that no laws shall ever be passed pertaining 
to the establishment of a religion. They are in defiance 
of the spirit of the Constitution which is against class 
legislation. They violate the Constitution in giving health 
boards power to seize person and enter homes without the 
consent of those most interested. They defy the Consti- 
tution in denying people the freedom guaranteed by it. 
They restrict even licensed doctors to limited territory. 
At first it was to state borders, now in some states it is to 

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counties, and in Iowa it is limited to their offices with the 
exception that they may go to the houses of their patients ; 
but no doctor can go from one town to another making 
periodical visits, and have an office without paying a 
special license of $600 a year — it is not a crime to work 
the people provided the State Board of medical grafters 
gets the $600. These Boards undertake to regulate the 
kind of a school a student must attend and how long he 
can go. The laws originally provided for an examination 
of candidates, no matter where they came from if they 
presented good references; now they demand a high school 
education, which is notoriously worthless, and at least 4 
years in an orthodox medical school. If they can legally 
demand all this they can increase it to 20 or 50 years. The 
Supreme Courts of Wisconsin and other states have de- 
cided they have no such rights. The Medical Trust is a 
political power. It comprises less than 30,000 of the 150,- 
000 drug physicians in the United States, but with church 
influence, acquired through the distribution of army 
and navy chaplaincies and through the gratuitous services 
of Trust doctors to influential clergymen, the social and 
political pulls are monstrous. 

Let it be observed that our therapy includes the anatomy 
and physiology, pathology and symptomatology of the body 
politic as well as of individuals; and, following the natural 
course, as we do in all other cases, personal feelings have no 
influence in the matter. We are not in a struggle for per- 
sonal gain or ascendancy in any particular. We simply 
demand unconditional surrender to Nature and we will 
take our professional chance with the Greek or with the 
Barbarian. The Medical Trust, the Religious Trust, the 
Political Trust and others have seen their own weak- 
nesses and have seen that the public sees them; they hope 
to avoid being "hanged separately" by "hanging together." 
This is satisfactory to us because we propose to hang them 
all together. By "we" it is intended to convey the im- 

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pression that at least 75,000,000 of the 100,000,000 popula- 
tion are agreeable to the above sentiment or will be when 
their attention is called directly to the subject. 

Sexology is the study of the influences, mental and phy- 
siological, on males and females of cohabitation. Here 
again we find the awful results of dogmatism and credulity; 
of grafters and grafted; of the substitution of artificial 
standards for natural ones. Taking the subject analytically, 
we find the first attempt of the grafters to dominate the 
world through the sex passions was the establishment of a 
marriage system in which the officiating officer, a priest, 
got a fee. To force people to pay up, it was decreed by the 
grafters that all persons living together without sanction 
of the code should be ostracized, and it was further an- 
nounced when it was discovered that natural laws worked 
and children were begotten independent of the marriage 
ceremony, that such children were "bastards" and would 
be damned — a hell of a religion, wasn't it? When the 
grafters found that the marriage scheme had two big faults : 
one, that it would not work on everybody and the other that 
it did not work very satisfactorily on those who accepted 
it, they originated a divorce law, which gives the lie to 
their own pretensions of belief in "Whom God hath joined 
together let no man put asunder." This divorce law be- 
came necessary because the public having been taught that 
the sex question was an obscene one, fit only for priests to 
study, they went into the marriage relation in ignorance, 
and, after a brief experience they decided to enlarge their 
field of experiments, being reassured by the announcement 
that it was a sin to chase around after other women or 
men than their wives and husbands, but that upon ex- 
hibiting penitence thereafter they could be forgiven — 
for a fee — thus the so-called sporting house was the second 
development of the system. The grafters found marrying, 
divorcing and forgiving sins were prolific sources of income, 
but they needed another to complete the quadrality and it 

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came automatically: The abuses of natural privileges 
develop two classes of diseases, one of which was discovered 
early, viz: venereal disorders, and this was seized as a new 
source of revenue, the priests becoming doctors. But 
Nature was working all this time and pretty soon the 
remuneration from the genito-urinary practice was too 
much for the good " Fathers," so many of them withdrew 
from the three other departments and became purely 
temporal workers, calling themselves Medicum Doctorum. 
Nature worked farther, the altruistic spirit developed in 
some individuals and they exposed the fallacies of the 
church by pointing out that while it was possible to fool 
the people part of the time by inducing them to believe 
they could forgive sins, they fell down when they under- 
took to cure syphilis by the same methods. These phil- 
osophers also showed that the medical doctors were equally 
wrong; that they could not cure syphilis either; that their 
drugs and experiments only developed other troubles. 
Many of the philosophers were assassinated, some after 
warnings and some without, by order of the church and the 
doctors. But the philosophers had taught there are natural 
laws, that all should feel free to study them. The grafters 
could assassinate individuals but they could not assassinate 
Nature. Still, by their machinations and show of authority 
they have managed to secure a continuance of ignorance 
and "sin," marriage and syphilis, with profit to the present 
day. But Nature kept on working. She has exhibited 
in this institution, not by "inspiration" but automatically, 
another feature of sex ills of far greater importance than 
venereal ones, and it is so simple, so provable, so beneficent, 
so wonderful, that it is remarkable it has not been dis- 
covered before. It covers the subject of genesiology* (in- 
cluding the employment of sex conditions mental and 
physiological), hygienically as well as procreatively. As 
Nature ignored dogmatism, so must we; therefore we omit 
marriage as a natural factor and study the subject as we 

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study the brain, the eyes, lungs, digestive and egestive 
apparatuses, the nervous, lymphatic, circulatory and mus- 
cular systems. We have found that while comparatively 
few are the victims of venereal disorders and other products 
of violation of the so-called moral code, millions are victims 
of misuse of their sexual functions either from zealous 
neglect and consequent underdevelopment, or atrophy, 
or from over-indulgence in a manner strictly in accordance 
with the code, and it is a fact that probably the greatest 
of factors, after eye strain and wrong eating, among the 
primary causes of human ills, is right here. We have found 
that right and wrong as a moral question is one thing and 
as a natural proposition is quite another. Nature tells us 
by the effects following our acts whether they are right 
or wrong and if we are faithful students we learn by our 
experiences that in doing those things which exalt our 
mentalities, but not our ego, and which make us physio- 
logically well and comfortable, we are doing right. If the 
reverse occurs we know we were doing wrong and we em- 
ploy our intelligence to learn better ways and conform to 
them. We know theoretically and practically that in com- 
bating dominant ideas and practices we give offense. We 
know that if we expressed the whole truth in writing and 
circulated it as it should be circulated into every home in the 
"land of the free and the home of the brave" we would be 
arrested, tried, convicted and jailed by order of the grafters. 
But that would not change the facts one iota, any more 
than it changed them when Socrates was compelled to 
drink hemlock tea, nor when Cotton Mather burned here- 
tics at the stake on Boston Common. Ours is a system 
of medical practice and from start to finish it is natural 
because it is consistent with physical laws as we have been 
proving for over 26 years. We are not "reformers." We 
are not grafters. We merely demand equal privileges with 
the grafters to put them out of business. The public has 
been opening i'ts eyes from time to time to the outrages 

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which are being committed in the names of Christianity 
and Medicine and the proofs are evident in empty church 
pews and in the desertion of old school medicine; and we 
might mention free thought publications and the National 
League for Medical Freedom. Neurology offers to those 
who want it, not a "cure," but a prophylactic system which 
when practiced with reasonable consistency insures con- 
tinued health and happiness; and to those who are suffering 
from disorders, but are not beyond the powers of natural 
metabolism, restoration to mental and physiological vigor. 
Chemistry is that branch of physics devoted to the study 
of the composition of matter and the decomposition thereof. 
Applied physiologically it proves the law of evolution by 
the re-arrangement of elements which are constantly taking 
place and it is therefore the most important of all the branches 
taken up in the study of the causes of human ills. It does 
not follow that the technicalities of the laboratory need 
be carried into practice or even into the school room, be- 
cause if that were true it would also follow that graduates 
should carry them into the sick room, when they could 
only take one patient at a time and would have to spend 
as much time on each patient as was spent in learning the 
technique. In the old days before we had textbooks re- 
cording the experiences of others of greater or less capacity 
and integrity doctors were turned out after two years in 
college and they were as successful if not more so, than the 
graduates of today. It is paradoxical that while the tele- 
graph has succeeded the post-boy, the ocean greyhound, 
the junk of earlier days, the palace car, the ox cart, the 
automobile the horse and carriage, that while the cold 
storage system affords fresh fruit and vegetables the year 
round, all denoting progress, medicine alone of all the al- 
leged sciences and arts is requiring more time, when of all of 
them, if the investigations of the older generations have 
been worth anything, the results should have been pre- 
served in such form that the time required to master the 

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science should be shortened rather than lengthened. 
Mechanics is the branch of physics which enables us to 
take bodies formed by chemical action and utilize them 
theoretically and practically, studying their forms and 
sometimes changing them; observing their natural motions 
if they have any and constructing combinations of station- 
ary or motile utility. The subject ranges from the calcu- 
lation of the evolutions of the planetary systems to the 
manual treatment of mechanical derangements of human 
physiology. In optics alone we have a branch of practice 
which is a special profession having most remarkable 
possibilities. 

General is a word used in two ways: In the abstract 
and in the concrete. 

Special is a word which applies in some instances with 
absolute certainty, while in others it is more or less un- 
certain. 

Normal is a word that suggests at once a comparison, 
hence the necessity for a standard by which we may judge 
statuses. In Neurological medicine we have a physiological 
standard based upon our knowledge of the various funda- 
mental subjects studied and that standard is ideal, theo- 
retically perfect. We do not even expect to find any one 
coming up to it, mentally or physiologically; but by having 
such a fixed standard and means of measuring and analyz- 
ing we find how far each patient is from that standard, and 
are thus able to classify cases with reference to the high, 
safety, danger and low lines of each. The actual average 
normal condition is never up to the theoretical one. 

Pathology comes from pathos, meaning pathetic or pitiful. 
The worst form of pathology we have found is the lament- 
able condition of the public mind. It is more attracted 
by tango than truth; it is the greatest subject of infection 
and the only subject of contagion. We are not pessimists, 
because we believe in Nature and her laws, but the business 
of a physician is to find faults and supply the means of 

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correcting them without prejudice. All other systems have 
given little or no attention to mental pathology because 
it was discovered very early that it was not diplomatic to 
point out the mental weaknesses of patients. We found 
that the interdependence existing between mentalities 
and physiological conditions is such that if one is involved 
the other is weakened. We found that mental worry from 
real or imaginary causes not only sours the disposition 
toward others but affects the temperament, which word 
covers the influence of the mentality upon the physiology. 
Any layman knows that when he is tired and hungry he is 
mentally irritable. We have gone deeply into this matter 
and have discovered that to be a physician is not enough. 
We must also be metaphysicians. This requires courage 
and that is not enough: We must be able to prove to pa- 
tients that our analyses of their mental conditions are as 
correct as are those of their physiological states. 

Diagnosis is a conglomerate word. In ancient times 
there was a class of people who set themselves up as author- 
ities and described themselves as "gnostics," or men who 
knew all things. Some time later the negative prefix "a" 
was discovered and another class of people who were true 
philosophers and who discovered they could not know all 
things, called themselves "agnostics." The prefix "Di" 
means two, therefore interpreted literally the word "diag- 
nostic" means "two don't knows." As used in practice it 
indicates an opinion formed by doctors after alleged ex- 
aminations and in all the old school practices treatment 
is based solely on this. We found that such procedure 
could not be rational theoretically and observations among 
physicians proved that it was a failure practically; then 
we turned to Nature, found what was lacking and adopted 
it as the only final means of determining what course to 
pursue in a case. The next paragraph tells about it. 

Analysis means to resolve a subject, theoretical or prac- 
tical, or a combination of both, into its elementary parts, 

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that we may understand the causes which produce effects. 
We found that in making diagnoses from appearances, 
history, etc., that all of them were more or less deceptive 
and such being the case, we were as liable to be deceived 
as other doctors. Then we reverted to our physics, anatomy, 
physiology, and we found we had means to make a number 
of tests, dynamic and static, and by keeping statistics from 
that time forward we would be able to not only classify 
our cases but verify those classifications temporarily by 
the immediate results and permanently by the final results. 
After 26 years we are able to pronounce ours a Mature 
System of practice. 

Objective, diagnostic and analytic features are that we 
form an opinion of the condition of a patient's circulation 
by the general appearance; with the ophthalmoscope we 
analyze the arterial and venous circulation and secure 
other information quickly which old school doctors know 
nothing of as a rule and refuse to believe when told. We 
not only study the quality but the quantity of the blood, 
the size and number of the vessels and sometimes discover 
conditions in the eye indicating systemic poisoning in time 
to arrest it, when an old school doctor would not find it out 
until too late. 

Subjectively we have a great number of tests, the results 
of which are employed in making our analysis, and when 
these check up and balance like a set of books we know we 
are correct in our analysis and we can proceed with con- 
fidence of success provided only that the patient follows 
instructions, or we can refuse the case because the analysis 
shows either that the case is a hopeless one, because of con- 
ditions found, or that the patient is of such a disposition 
that instructions will not be followed. This is why we get 
our fees in advance. After analysis we can tell what they 
will be. We know how much work we have to do because 
we know the law. It works, if the patient will let it, and 
as we can not control patients any other way we require a 
cash bond that they do their duty. 

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Mental. This word is used in anatomy referring to the 
point of the chin which is called the mental process. It 
must have been a physiognomical genius who so named it 
because we have found that the chin, genio, indicates in- 
tellectual characteristics, as do the mouth, nose, eyes, etc. 
The absence of a chin requires many good points to offset 
the metaphysical deficiency indicated. In forming an 
opinion in a case both diagnostically and analytically, we 
have to bear in mind constantly not only the relation of 
the mind to body physiology, which we classify as temper- 
ament, but we study the disposition toward us and others 
in settling whether we will undertake the case. If we find 
the patient inclined rationally we can go into more details 
and advise not only as to patient's duties but with refer- 
ence to outside interferences by dogmatic people who want 
to boost some other doctor, or who are naturally meddle- 
some Matties who butt into lots of things they know noth- 
ing about. If the patient is dogmatic himself we may be 
able to use it t>o protect him against himself and others. 
We are able to make almost a perfect analysis of some cases 
by the external mental marks so that we may say the mind 
is one mental process but the whole face and many parts 
of the body display unmistakable mental signs. 

Hygiene means health; hence anything that conduces 
to health is hygienic. There is a legion of prattlers about 
the "laws of health" and their prattle proves they know 
nothing about them. They are faddists, some from credu- 
lity, some for the easy money they can get out of it. No 
one can begin to comprehend the laws of health who is 
ignorant of physics, anatomy, physiology and their allied 
branches, and the doctor who spends years studying drug 
medicaments, bacteriology, and other medical myths of 
the old schools, to the absolute exclusion of the simple 
truths we have been referring to, comes out of school be- 
fuddled, with pointed whiskers and a vacant stare which 
they have made him believe is the picture of wisdom, is 

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really worse off than the layman because he is fool enough 
to take his own dope which the majority of laymen have 
repudiated long since. The old schools confess that their 
knowledge is not only weak, but unsafe, because in their 
"code of ethics" they teach that it is highly improper for a 
physician to treat his own family and recommend reciproc- 
ity between them in that respect. Ours is a system so 
natural that the more interested we are in a case the more 
we apply ourselves in emergencies, and knowing that we 
know more about ourselves and our families than any 
others could possibly know we treat our own dear ones and 
do it successfully. It is a pathetic situation indeed for a 
man to be practicing a system that he dare not employ in 
his own family. 

Procreation means literally to repeat. It is taking the 
affirmative side of generation which, while the self-styled 
"moral" people have constantly reiterated the injunction 
to marry and multiply on the face of the earth, have been 
as constantly practicing con-creation, commonly known 
as race suicide. Neurology teaches Nature's truths about 
procreation, how to prepare for it, how to regulate the num- 
ber of progeny, how to render delivery painless without 
anesthetics, how to avoid conception in a natural manner 
without the use of criminal artificial means such as is prac- 
ticed by drug doctors and other professional abortionists, 
and as is taught in special classes in some of the big medical 
schools of the country. It is a fundamental truth that a 
child has a right to be well born and to accomplish this the 
prospective parents must be educated. We have nothing 
to tell our students or anybody else that we can not state 
in any company of men, women and children. Of course 
we have no children in our classes, but what we have to 
say is clean. It would shock a prude who is always un- 
clean in mind, and it shocks those whose minds are unclean 
in the opposite direction, but happily their condition is 
not so chronic that they can not be cured of their malady — 

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a prude is always a prude; atrophied in body, shriveled 
in mind. 

Inorganic is the negative of organic. There is much con- 
fusion among students with reference to the words inor- 
ganic, organic and organized. According to our system of 
dualities we are compelled to eliminate the word organic, 
and here is the reason: First, inorganic chemistry com- 
prises the study of the laws of elements and the relations 
to each other in the primary state, in the earth. It includes 
water and air because the earth is composed of land and 
water, with the surrounding atmosphere. Organized 
chemistry is the study of the composition and proportions 
of vegetable and animal matter. The old schools slipped 
in the word organic chemistry specifying that it is "the 
chemistry of the carbon compounds" and they have proved 
by their practices that about all there is to it is the name, 
because they have never devoted themselves to the analysis 
of foods except to exploit their false notions about the 
carbohydrates as producers of heat and energy. They admit 
in their textbooks that they pay no attention to what are 
known as the inorganic salts, which we have found to be of 
infinite value and have adopted the chemistry of food as 
our materia-medica. Their so-called "organic chemistry" 
is so limited in its scope that it is of no practical value. 
Inorganic chemistry is a purely physical proposition, has 
absolutely nothing to do with medicine, except in the same 
manner that the laws of optics give us the principles of 
ophthalmology. In this sense inorganic or physical chem- 
istry is the basis of our organized or physiological chemistry. 
We use the physical analyses of foods as we find physio- 
logical needs for them and by studying the properties of the 
various foods and observing their effects on organized 
bodies we have become able to prescribe dietaries with 
certainty because they are natural combinations while 
the old schools have been employing artificial combinations 
of elements, few of which have ever been found in the body 

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structures, hence must be as inimical to health as wood 
shavings ingested or wood splinters injected. The old 
schools, after saying that "organic chemistry is primarily 
the study of the substances which form part of the tissues 
of plants and animals," add that "organic bodies are not 
necessarily organized but that all organized bodies are 
organic;" thus they limit themselves to a duality uncon- 
sciously. The inorganic referring to the elements in their 
primary state, the organic in their secondary state, that is 
in plants and animals. Then they bring in the limitation 
of organic chemistry to the carbon compounds ^nd talk 
vaguely about "organized bodies," which they say may 
be studied microscopically. Our proposition of an inor- 
ganic chemistry and a physiological or organized chemistry 
covers all theirs does and more and does it in a compre- 
hensive and practical manner, as one illustration will suffice 
to prove: In all of their chemical training they omit to 
instruct students to consider the color, odor, quantity and 
frequency of discharge of urine, but they do give some 
simple, worthless tests and a tedious method which requires 
facilities few doctors possess as is shown by the patronage 
of the commercial laboratories. Therefore, in practice, 
while their graduates are waiting 24 to 48 hours for a urinal 
analysis, ours have changed the entire systemic condition 
by diet and auxiliary treatments. An amusing feature in 
this connection is the fact that among the old schools, 
polyuria is said to be significant of kidney trouble, and they 
having analyses made of the urine often find it normal but 
still insisting there is something wrong with the kidneys, 
they go ahead doping for diabetes, and we have known 
instances where they continued the treatment for as much 
as a year and a half without benefit, when one of our oph- 
thalmological graduates fitted a pair of glasses and relieved 
the trouble in two weeks. Physicians who have taken our 
post-graduate course have cured cases of long standing in 
short order when they learned how. A noteworthy feature 

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of our chemistry is that we give the essential elements, 
iron, phosphorus, etc., in their natural combinations as 
inorganic salts, while the other schools use artificial com- 
binations or single elements. For example, they dare not 
give more than 1-120 of a grain of phosphorus at a dose 
while anyone who eats four ounces of strawberries at a 
sitting takes nearly seven grains of phosphorous, and in 
such natural combinations that physiological chemistry 
utilizes the elements, an impossibility when given in the 
artificial form. A technical point might be argued here, 
viz: that the old school doctors sometimes prescribe 
natural combinations, as, for instance, common salt. When 
they do that, they are tending in the right direction, but most 
of them would give calomel, which while in one sense a 
natural combination, because of the physical laws, in an- 
other it is not fit for use physiologically because one of its 
elements, mercury, is foreign to the body composition. 
Again they often use bicarbonate of soda for pyrosis when 
salt would be the natural thing, because it would promote 
normal digestion by reason of its acidifying qualities/ while 
the sodium carbonate arrests digestion because it is en- 
tirely alkaline and if continued repeatedly it develops a 
caustic compound so ferocious that it attacks the lining 
of the stomach and intestines. 

Theory and Practice: This is a very common expres- 
sion and yet few have analyzed it enough to understand 
it. The old schools teach that a theory, particularly if it 
is theirs, is scientific. They say that old school medicine 
is based upon scientific principles, while other schools are 
products of empiricism, implying haphazard experimenta- 
tion. As a matter of fact many of us were trained pretty 
thoroughly in their alleged theories, but when we came to 
try them practically they did not work, hence we repudi- 
ated them while the orthodox-part-his-hair-in-the-middle- 
and-pointed-whiskers doctor still clings to his idol. The- 
ories may be true or false and the only way to find out 

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which is to empiricise. In youth we get some preliminary 
training which we utilize with other information gathered 
by instruction and study to conceive systematically the 
probabilities of new applications of law, and in some in- 
stances we are able to know positively from what we have 
done in one direction, what can be done in another. But 
in most cases theories must be tested out practically before 
we are certain. The honest theorist is always an empiricist. 

We hold that no one should attempt to treat human ills 
until he or she has been under training of a systematic 
nature, beginning with physical laws, and has come to know 
why those laws work and how to steer them physiologically. 
The person who practices without a sound theory is in- 
finitely worse than the person who has a theory which has 
not been proved and who prefers to believe it rather than 
test it in practice, but he is not so bad as the person who 
has a theory which is proved false in practice yet still con- 
tinues to practice it. We insist that the state has abso- 
lutely no right to enact statutes giving the latter class even 
a temporary monopoly of practice nor to restrict in any 
manner the progress of medical study and practice any more 
than it has to restrict the discoveries of inventors. Those 
of us who are working in earnest need not concern ourselves 
about competition. The more the merrier; it makes us 
all hustle and the devil gets the incompetent. 

Skeleton: Theoretically we have in a comparatively 
few words the skeleton of a subject. The causes of human 
ills skeletonized abstractly are "nervous shock and strain." 
Skeletonized concretely we have "congenital, infection, 
malnutrition, physical shock, mental shock, physiological 
strain, mental strain, habits, occupation, atmospheric 
influences.' ' Practically, we have the human skeleton, 
which in the abstract comprises only the bones. But in 
the concrete we find that the articulations of the bones 
connect not only with the covering of them but with their 
contents, the nervous system, lymphatic and circulatory 

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systems, the muscular system, the organic system and the 
tissue structure, so that with us the word skeleton covers 
the entire body, its functions, the influences on the functions, 
how to distinguish bad ones from good ones and how to 
aid Nature in maintaining the good ones in the ascendency. 
For this reason we claim our system is as superior to the 
old schools and their imitators as the entire body is superior 
to the bones. 

Muscle: Anatomies and most schools teach the names 
and functions of something over 600 muscles. They go 
into such great detail subdividing, etc., that they dispute 
one another, but they all overlook important features, one 
of which is the simple fact that the so-called muscular 
system is misleading, hence their students forget that the 
heart and some other organs are purely muscle, that the 
arteries and veins, lymphatics, intestines, various ducts 
and ligaments are all important muscular structures. Their 
practice proves they do not know these things. They have 
never been taught the plan of innervation of the body. 
They are apprentices rather than master mechanics. It 
is very common to meet bombastic doctors who declare 
that the idea of eye strain causing general chemical or me- 
chanical disorders is preposterous, yet they will assert that 
stomach and other derangements easily affect the eyes, 
thus doubly proving their ignorance, because we can prove 
easily that they are wrong in both assertions. 

Cerebral refers to the brain as differentiating the con- 
tents of the cranium from the spinal column, which is simply 
a continuance of the brain substance distributed by way 
of a trunk line and a multitude of branches to the remotest 
parts of the body, superficially and deep. This cerebral 
influence depends upon two important things: first, a 
perfectly connected and widely distributed system of 
microscopic tubes containing myel or marrow, otherwise 
the current could not be distributed; then there is the es- 
sential infinite arrangement of the batteries and their 

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connections in the skull with that process, subconscious 
and conscious, which we know as the mind. It is when 
we take up the preliminary study of the nervous system 
that we begin to awaken to an appreciation of what the 
expression "Infinite Creator ,, means, but it does not im- 
press us as anything like a person with capacity for joy 
or sorrow, hilarity or wrath. All we can say is "we do not 
know," then we go ahead and study the practical things 
this Creator has placed within our reach. 

Organon or Splanchnology covers the study of the viscera 
or contents of the body cavities from the brain to the 
genitals. Particular attention is paid by us to the digestive 
apparatus because therein lies the greatest susceptibility 
to disorders. As children are peculiarly liable to digestive 
extremes we introduce here a comparison of their ills with 
others and remind the students they are now studying 
"pediatrics." Children are so constituted that they ex- 
hibit the effects of chemical derangements more quickly 
and recover more quickly than their elders. Part of the 
intensity of their exhibit is mental, however, and it requires 
great discrimination to differentiate between their safety 
and danger lines in this respect. On general principles we 
regard the condition as reasonably safe so long as the child 
is fussy and conscious, but when one becomes unconscious, 
or conscious but quiet, we know there is danger. The so- 
called children's diseases, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, 
mumps, etc., have never been traced to a specific source, 
but experience has shown that when symptoms of these 
disorders are exhibited there is always danger whether the 
child makes a fuss or not; hence we devote ourselves to 
teaching parents the importance of learning how to live 
while they and their family are well. We teach them 
dietetics in a general way together with other hygienic 
measures so that they may prevent disorders and promote 
the development of the children. Frank but foolish old 
school doctors tell us bluntly that this is wrong, that the 

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doctors have to make a living and that if all adopted our 
methods in this respect the grown folks would profit by it 
too, and we would all soon be out of business. They do 
not appear to appreciate the fact that the word "doctor" 
means "teacher," and that when the people find their 
doctor is really a teacher they will willingly pay him an 
annual salary for teaching them how to remain well. There 
is room in this country for 200,000 doctors with 500 of that 
sort of patients each and at an average of $5.00 a year each it 
would mean an income of $2,500 if everybody went in on 
the deal. As there is no practical possibility of such an 
arrangement and as the practices of the old school doctors 
tend to increase the number of our patients, because there 
is where all the chronics come from, we are content to con- 
tinue risking our professional lives by teaching people how 
to get well and how to keep well. The more intelligent 
class is always the best paying and most appreciative and 
it is to them we extend invitations to investigate Neurology. 



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CHAPTER XII. 
"Propaganda For Reform." 

The amazing impudence of the organs of the various 
Trusts in their pretenses of protecting the public by ex- 
posing petty grafters and attacking legitimate things as 
"irregular" is only equalled by the marvelous stupidity 
of people who believe everything they read or hear through 
such channels. 

As the title of this chapter is a department heading in the 
Journal of the American Medical Association (the Medical 
Trust — a doctor's union) we will analyze that organ and its 
chief actor first : 

A fair sample of the conduct of both may be found in its 
issue of August 30th, where it goes after "Lemmon's Rheu- 
matism Cure" with a big stick. It appears the secretary 
of a coal company in Chicago, who had what is known as 
"rheumatism," went to a "regularly licensed" Trust doctor 
and paid for a prescription which "eliminated" his "pain" 
"every time it came on" for several years. Wonderful 
"cure" by a Trust doctor, wasn't it? No "graft" about 
that — none at all. But Mr. Lemmon, probably catching 
on to the doctor's scheme, and the ignorance of the craft 
generally, concluded he could pick up some good dollars 
by selling the prescription to country doctors (the im- 
pudence of the cuss!), so he sent out a lot of letters to them 
stating how he had acquired the prescription, testifying 
to its efficacy as a pain killer and offering to sell copies of 
it for a dollar each. This brought a storm and an "expose" 
in the "Propaganda for Reform" columns of the Journal 
of the Trust. The editor appears to have lacked acumen 
enough to see that he was exposing one of his own brethren 
as practicing a fraud when he sold the prescription to Lem- 

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mon which merely deadens the sense of pain but does not 
remove the causes of trouble, as was proved by its recur- 
rence. The doctors who received the letters and sent them 
in to the Trust Boss were highly offended at having their 
own game tried on themselves. 

The aforesaid Boss who is now in the "Reform" business 
was not always a "reformer/ ' as the following affidavits 
will show. We print them to show the character of this 
director of the American Medical Black Hand Society, of 
Rush Medical College, which graduated him as a "regu- 
lar" in a few days, some of his advertisers and a Newspaper 
Trust which works hand in glove with all other big Trusts 
and diverts attention from them by exposing "dice shooters" 
and petty gamblers : 
STATE OF ILLINOIS, 



COUNTY OF COOK, 

DR. MARGARET E. SIMMONS, first being duly 
sworn, reposes and says, that she is a graduate of the 
Women's Medical College of Chicago, 111., and that the 
said College was taken over by the Northwestern University 
before she graduated, and that she holds state licenses to 
practice medicine in the States of Illinois, Nebraska and 
Indiana. 

She further deposes and says : I was born at Mt. Vernon, 
Ohio. My parents moved to Lincoln, Neb., when I was 
about sixteen years of age. I attended the High School 
and State University there. * * * I became a teacher 
and taught in the public schools in Lincoln for ten years; 
seven before I was married and three afterward. The 
money I earned before I was married went to help my 
mother, except I saved enough to buy a cottage in the 
southern part of the city. After I was married the money 
I earned went to pay board and living expenses of myself 
and husband, George H. Simmons. 

While attending the University, I met my husband, 
George H. Simmons, now head of The American Medical 

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Association and the Editor of the Journal of the American 
Medical Association, who was then a student in the Agri- 
cultural Department at the University of Nebraska. I 
had been critic of the Union Literary Society at the Uni- 
versity and after giving up College work, I still held that 
position, and met Mr. Simmons quite often at the meetings. 

Through my influence, George H. Simmons became 
jailer under my brother-in-law, who was sheriff. He held 
the position two years. He then spent part of a term in 
Hahnemann Medical College at Chicago. He returned 
to Lincoln for a short time and then went to St. Elmo, 
Colo., to practice medicine, where he remained about a 
year and a half. He returned to Lincoln and we were mar- 
ried, and came directly to Chicago for six months where 
my husband attended Hahnemann Medical College and 
graduated the next spring. We then returned to Lincoln, 
where he took up general practice. We bought a house 
of Dr. Bumstead and took over his practice when he moved 
to California. 

George told me that he ran away from home in England. 
That before he came to Lincoln he had attended college 
at Tabor, Iowa, was registered there as a theological stu- 
dent, because theological students were charged no fee, 
and that the reason he registered as an agricultural student 
at Lincoln was, that they were admitted free. A baby was 
born to me on July 4th. Our home was a happy one for a 
while. We lost our baby on February 22nd, at the age of 
eight months. Before the death of our baby, he met a 
certain woman and at once took up with and spent a great 
deal of time with her. She had been one of my girlhood 
friends. My husband became infatuated with her and 
became a changed man toward me. He talked of her often 
and was cruel to me. He had been kind to me and I had 
tried to aid him in being successful in his work. He be- 
came dissatisfied with everything and very discontented. 
About three weeks after the death of our baby he said he 

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was going to take a trip to Europe. I tried to dissuade 
him, but he was determined and went. He obtained an 
extension of payments on our home and used the money 
we had saved for his trip. He left me to look after all busi- 
ness. I rented the house and office and went to live with 
my mother. I was weak and very nervous. I had been 
very healthy all my life and had not lost a day's time during 
the seven years I had taught school in Lincoln before J was 
married. At the time of the death of our baby I was about 
two months pregnant, and when the doctor planned to go 
to Europe I tried to dissuade him on account of my condi- 
tion. He said he had planned to go and was going, and 
that it would be necessary for me to go back to teaching and 
insisted that I should not allow the pregnancy to continue. 
He became very unkind and abusive and said that he did 
not want a child as it would take up too much of my time 
and his, and that he couldn't afford it. He was so deter- 
mined to go and became so abusive and I was so miserable 
that I consented to the abortion, which he himself per- 
formed on me. He said that he could now leave and people 
would not criticize him and that I could teach school. He 
left me sick and weak and without ready funds. I was so 
nervous that I could not sleep. Knowing that I must keep 
my mind occupied, I accepted a position as teacher in the 
public schools again. * * * I put my soul into my 
work and hoped that my husband would return and settle 
down. My health became better. My husband wrote me 
several times for money, but it was impossible to send any 
as I had to meet payments on property and felt that he 
had taken plenty with him for reasonable expense. He 
remained in Europe a year, then returned to Lincoln and 
we moved into our cottage and he again took up practice. 
I continued teaching for two more years. The doctor was 
always discontented and all he seemed to think of was to 
get money. My ambition was to have a home and children. 
During the two years following his return we moved 

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from place to place, and he made life unhappy for me. 
From my mother's home where we were living we moved 
to our cottage, then to the office building on to which we 
built another room. We rented our cottage. In a few 
months we moved to the Institute that he opened and re- 
mained there about a year. I still taught school and helped 
him all I could and broke down in health. Dr. Simmons 
advertised a great deal and published The Western Journal 
of Health which was to advertise his Institution and prac- 
tice. He lost a great deal of money and had to give up the 
Institute. Later when he quit the Institute he gathered 
up ajl the old Western Journals of Health he could find 
and destroyed them. He issued about 2000 of these month- 
ly and sent them to people throughout the country. 

One day he told me that he would have to raise $1,200.00 
or go to jail and that I must get it for him. I was worried 
and got my mother to sign a note at the Capital National 
Bank and we got the money for him. I later had' to borrow 
the money of my uncle to pay the note and then later sold 
the house in north Lincoln to pay my uncle. 

Dr. Simmons wanted me to take a course in medicine, 
so I came to Chicago and wrote him that should I attempt 
to do the work required in two years, it would break me 
down. He wrote that unless I did the work in that time, 
I could not take it at all. I took the work and during the 
vacation went to Lincoln to help him with his work in his 
practice. 

After his return from Europe I begged him for a home 
and children. I became pregnant, which made him furious, 
and he said that he did not want any children, and that 
he could not afford them. He made life so unbearable for 
me that I allowed him to abort me again. I did the best I 
could to prevent conception, but owing to his brutal treat- 
ment, I again conceived in a few months. He said that he 
could not afford to keep me unless I worked and that I 

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would have to keep on teaching and that he would not 
allow me to have a child. After several weeks of continu- 
ous abuse I consented to him performing an abortion on 
me, as I saw that all my pleadings did no good. 

*************** 

I was in miserable health and the effects of the abortions 
were terrible. After we got into our new home, I was de- 
termined to make one more effort to make him think of 
his duty to me and his home. During the time that passed 
after the death of my baby I had one continual longing for 
a child, and I begged him to allow me to become a mother, 
but he still objected. In spite of his objection I conceived 
again and determined to go through with it at any cost 
and have a baby to love. As soon as he learned the truth 
he made life one continual hell for me and threatened to 
sell the home. He said that he did not want a child by me. 
This made me bitter and I concluded that it was not best 
to bear a child that might inherit the instincts of such a 
man, and I asked him to abort me. Twice after this I be- 
came pregnant and he aborted me. He was brutal to me 
in our private life, and treated me as a slave. I was too 
proud to tell any one and bore up as best I could. 

After my graduation I went to Lincoln and took up 
practice with my husband. Later he went to Chicago to 
attend the Rush Medical College. He remained there but 
twelve days and returned home and told me that he had 
arranged to take his course by having some one answer roll 
call for him but that he would go back at the time of the 
examinations. He went back at the time of the examina- 
tions and returned with a Rush Medical College diploma. 
He was gone only a few days. I lived with him about a 
year after this. No woman ever passed through such a 
hell as he made for me. He said that he wanted me to get 
out of his life. Every morning he would say that he wished 
I was dead and out of the way, so that he could marry 

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I was sick, weak and miserable — I went to the Advent 
Sanitarium at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, at the request of my hus- 
band and remained there about two months. He was 
anxious for me to go and for me to get out of Lincoln. After 
I got to Mt. Vernon my husband wrote for me to remain 
six months, and also wrote Dr. Place, who was in charge 
of the Sanitarium, to try to keep me there as long as he 
could. Dr. Place was anxious to do this as they had but 
few patients. 

When I took up teaching while Dr. Simmons was in 
Europe, my health improved, but after his return, and his 
aborting me so often and my worry because of his abuse, 
I became subject to very severe nervous headaches. He 
gave me medicine to take for these headaches and to take 
to prevent them when I felt them coming on. One day I 
gave one of the powders he had given me for these head- 
aches to a patient of Dr. Paine. The patient was in the 
office waiting for Dr. Paine and had a severe headache. 
It relieved the patient quickly and the patient wanted to 
get some of the powders. Dr. Paine asked me what I had 
given the patient. I told him I didn't know, but showed 
him the powders. He said, "That brute is giving you 
morphine. " 

I continued teaching, and when these headaches would 
come on I was forced to take these powders to get relief. 
Under the direction of Dr. Simmons I became addicted 
to the use of morphine. Dr. Simmons confessed to my 
mother that he was to blame for my forming the habit. I 
tried to keep from it, but in my poor health and my misery 
from the hell my husband's acts caused, I was helpless. 

When I left Lincoln and went to Mt. Vernon for treat- 
ment, Dr. Simmons wrote me several times I should remain 
there six months at least and that if I left I would be sorry 
for it. He also wrote Dr. Place to keep me there several 
times. Dr. Place tried to keep me prisoner and to even 
prevent me writing letters, and was very gruff and unkind 

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to me, so I decided to leave. Dr. Hubbard, his assistant, 
was kind to me, and George Irwin, an old friend of my 
father's, who was president of the Sanitarium Association, 
was good and kind to me. I was weak, sick and miserable. 
I weighed about 90 pounds. My normal weight was about 
130 pounds. I saw that Dr. Place was not trying to cure 
me, but only wanted to keep me there, and I told Mr. Irwin 
that I wanted to return home and he came and took me 
and my trunk to the station. I came to Chicago and at 
once wrote my husband that I was in Chicago and for him 
to send me money so that I could return to Lincoln. I at 
once got an answer telling me that he did not want me to 
return but that he wanted to get a divorce. He said 
"Don't you dare to come back here," and "Don't you dare 
to fight the case as I don't want you and I want to get a 
divorce." 

I received a copy of the complaint by mail. It stated 
that the reason my husband asked for a divorce was that 
I used narcotics continuously. Attorney Stewart of Lin- 
coln was in Chicago. * * * He said my mother had 
asked him to act as my attorney in the divorce proceedings. 
He said that Dr. Simmons could not get a divorce on the 
grounds in the complaint. He advised me, however, to 
allow him to get the divorce. I refused to do so and told 
him that my husband had no grounds whatever on which 
he could divorce me. Later Mr. Stewart sent me an answer 
to the Complaint for me to sign before a Notary Public 
which I did and sent it to him. I never got further informa- 
tion of any kind until I was notified that my husband had 
gotten a divorce. During all this time I was sick, weak and 
miserable and was trying to rest up. The divorce was ob- 
tained by fraud, as I at no time gave my consent to his ob- 
taining the divorce and have several times since been prom- 
ised aid to attack the same on the grounds of fraud but 
have been deceived by attorneys and especially by Dr. 
W. C. Abbott of the Abbott Alkaloidal Co. * * * 

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I have this day read the certified copies of the Court 
records of the divorce obtained by my husband and will 
say that I never saw nor knew the contents of the Com- 
plaint upon which the divorce was granted, and which 
complaint was substituted for the Complaint sent me as 
shown by these records. The answer that I signed was 
made in answer to the first complaint, and for which the 
second complaint was substituted. The claim of cruelty 
is absolutely untrue. I was all a woman should be and did 
all kinds of work to aid my husband even to the caring for 
the horse and taking the horse and buggy to the office for 
him. Every one who knew us well knows the claim of 
cruelty to be untrue. He surely would have complained 
had I been cruel during the eleven years of our married 
life, if true. It seems peculiar that I became miserable and 
broken in health and he strong and healthy. He was the 
cruel one. He told me during the last year I lived with 
him that the only reason he ever married me was so that 
he could get into the society which would aid him to get 
a practice. 

Before I left Lincoln for Mt. Vernon the last time, I had 
sold our house and paid off all the debts of George H. 
Simmons and myself, and there was the sum of Twelve 
Hundred Dollars on deposit in the Capital National Bank 
which belonged to me as through all our transactions the 
deals had been made with the moneys from the sale of 
property I had owned. I had never received any of this 
money, but it was taken and used by my husband. We 
had an account against which we both issued checks. The 
only moneys I have ever received from George H. Sim- 
mons was a paltry forty dollars per month as alimony for a 
period of one year, which I took to keep from starving as I 
was weak and sick. 

I have seen the photographic reproductions of the ad- 
vertisements of Dr. George H. Simmons and the Lincoln 
Medical Institute as taken from the Lincoln papers, also 

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the reproductions of the originals of death certificates and 
prescriptions by photographic copy as reproduced in the 
VOICE of the Retail Druggists, January 1910 number, 
as published in New York and will say that they are ab- 
solutely true. One of these advertisements, which reads: 
"A limited number of lady patients can be accommodated 
at my residence," did not arouse my suspicions at first, but 
as I became acquainted with things medical in helping my 
husband, and one peculiar thing happened which I will 
recite later, and I had studied medicine and graduated, I 
know these special cases were abortions. The peculiar case 
referred to was when, one Sunday morning, while my hus- 
band was still in bed, I answered a knock on the door. A 
man asked for Dr. Simmons. I told him he could not see 
the doctor then. He handed me a package and said I 
should tell the doctor that his wife was all right now. I 
found a vaginal speculum and a uterine probe in the pack- 
age. I asked my husband why he let the man have such 
instruments; he said the man used it on his wife as she 
didn't want any more children. Women from other towns 
would come at long intervals for treatment. I even then 
wondered how they could get well by one or two treatments. 
I did not then know the nature of those cases, but as I 
studied and recalled many of the cases I know they were 
abortions. 

I further swear that I gave Dr. W. C. Abbott, of the 
Abbott Alkaloidal Co., of Ravenswood Station, Chicago, 
111., all the above information and other detail 
information in the form of an affidavit about 
five years ago. Dr. Abbott and his representative 
told me that Dr. Simmons had attacked their business 
through the Journal of the American Medical Association 
and would not take their advertisements and that Dr. 
Simmons ought to be deposed and that they would use the 
information I gave them to publicly show Dr. Simmons 
in his true light. Dr. Abbott also promised that he would 

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personally help me to get what was right from Dr. Sim- 
mons because of his failure to return me the twelve hundred 
dollars of mine that he took from me in Lincoln. He also 
promised me that he would hire a lawyer at his own ex- 
pense to fight the fraudulent divorce and make my husband 
give me a home. * * * He said that as Dr. Simmons 
was trying to ruin his business if he could get his advertise- 
ments into the American Medical Journal and get the rec- 
ognition of the Council of Pharmacy and the American 
Medical Association it would be worth one hundred thou- 
sand dollars to him. A short time afterwards his advertise- 
ment appeared in the Journal of the American Medical 
Association. Dr. Abbott said that he had looked up all 
the* information I had given him and found it absolutely 
true. Dr. Abbott never lived up to his agreements in any 
way and I have never been able to get any satisfactory 
answer from him why he did not do so. 

I am now practicing medicine at 1518 West Madison 
Street, Chicago, 111. 

(Signed), MARGARET E. SIMMONS. 
STATE OF ILLINOIS 



COUNTY OF COOK. J SS * 

MRS. MARION MITCHELL, wife of George Mitchell, 
of 1527 West Madison Street, and formerly of 1518 West 
Madison Street, Chicago, on oath deposes and says: That 
I am well acquainted with Dr. Margaret E. Simmons and 
have been for about five years, and that I occupied the same 
flat with her at 1518 West Madison Street about five years 
ago, and that Dr. Margaret E. Simmons attended my hus- 
band who had an abscess on his leg. Dr. Margaret E. Sim- 
mons has been our family physician from that time until 
now. 

I became acquainted with Dr. W. C. Abbott, President 
of the Abbott Alkaloidal Company, of Ravenswood, Chi- 
cago, when he called to see Dr. Margaret E. Simmons about 
matters pertaining to her difficulties with her husband, 

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Dr. George H. Simmons. Dr. Abbott came many times to 
see Mrs. Simmons. * * * His young lady stenographer 
came with him at different times to our rooms at 1518 
West Madison Street, and also came over to our flat at 
1527 West Madison Street, to which we moved, and 
where Dr. Margaret E. Simmons roomed with me. Dr. 
Abbott would always pat Dr. Simmons on the shoulder 
and was very kind to her on each of his visits and later 
sent medicines and medicine case, and a lot of paper and 
envelopes with her name and address printed on, he also 
sent many magazines. 

I read a number of letters from Dr. Abbott to Mrs. 
Simmons and also her letters to him. Dr. Margaret E. 
Simmons and I often talked of the matter. Dr. W. C. Ab- 
bott said that it was worth a great deal to him and his 
Company's business and that it would only be a short 
time before Dr. Margaret E. Simmons would have plenty 
of money and that he would look after the matter and see 
that her husband, Dr. George H. Simmons, would do the 
right thing by her. Dr. Abbott said that she ought to have 
Fifty Thousand Dollars alimony. * * * Dr. Abbott 
said that it would be an easy thing for him to get that much 
for her — that he would hire a lawyer at his own expense 
and attack the divorce that Dr. George H. Simmons got 
through fraud and make Dr. George H. Simmons pay her 
big alimony. He said that he would make George H. Sim- 
mons pay back to Mrs. Simmons the $1,200 he took from 
the bank at Lincoln, Nebraska, which belonged to her. 
Dr. Abbott said that the information that Mrs. Simmons 
had given to him would be published as his stenographer 
had taken it down. * * * He said that there was no 
punishment too severe for a man who had treated a woman 
as Dr. George H. Simmons had treated his wife. He said 
that the publishing of the information would ruin Dr. 
George H. Simmons and would put him out of business — 
that it was worth more than $5,000 to the Abbott Alkaloi- 

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dal Company to get this information, and that he would 
see to it personally that Mrs. Simmons would get a home 
and justice done her at his own expense. 

Dr. W. C. Abbott told me that he would buy me a new 
suit for my kindness to Mrs. Simmons and to him, but I 
never got the suit. Dr. Abbott said that Dr. George H. 
Simmons was trying to ruin the business of the Abbott 
Alkaloidal Company and that he had already injured his 
company to the amount of One Hundred Thousand Dol- 
lars, because Dr. George H. Simmons had taken the 
Abbott Alkaloidal Company's advertisements out of the 
American Medical Journal — he said that it would be worth 
at least that amount if he could force Dr. George H. Sim- 
mons to take his advertisements again. 

Dr. W. C. Abbott took a lot of Dr. Margaret E. Simmons' 
time and his stenographer came often and took a great deal 
of information in short hand — she would then to go Dr. 
Abbott's office and write it on the typewriter. 

Dr. Abbott came over to our new flat at 1527 West 
Madison Street, and told Mrs. Simmons in my presence 
that he had investigated the information that he and his 
stenographer had taken from Mrs. Simmons, that he had 
gone to Lincoln, Nebraska, and found that every word 
that Mrs. Simmons had told him was true — he said that 
Mrs. Simmons had a most remarkable memory and that 
many people in Lincoln had repeated facts to him almost 
word for word. He said that Mrs. Simmons certainly had 
many friends among the best people in Lincoln, and that 
he found her reputation in Lincoln to be above reproach, 
but that her husband, Dr. George H. Simmons, had few, 
if any, friends in Lincoln. Dr. Abbott told me that all the 
statements that Mrs. Margaret E. Simmons had made 
to him and his stenographer he had found to be absolutely 
true while in Lincoln. Dr. Abbott said that he had placed 
the divorce case in the hands of a lawyer at Lincoln, Ne- 
braska, and that he (Dr. Abbott) would look after the matter 

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himself at his own expense. * * * I heard him prom- 
ise Mrs. Simmons that he would aid her and protect her 
in every way. Dr. Abbott said that Mrs. Simmons needed 
a home where she could live in comfort and told her to 
look one up. He always talked nice, and I thought he was 
going to do wonderful things for Mrs. Simmons, but all of a 
sudden Dr. Abbott stopped coming to see Mrs. Simmons 
and never helped her after that. 

When Dr. Abbott returned from Lincoln he called. I 
heard him tell Mrs. Simmons that it was a shame that a 
woman of so high a character and ability should be dragged 
down and her life ruined by such a man as that scoundrel, 
George H. Simmons. 

I have known Dr. Margaret E. Simmons in her practice 
which is mostly among poor people, and God knows she 
is an angel to all these people — no one is too poor to get 
her to care for them — she is honesty itself and kind to 
everyone — I have never heard one word against her, and 
everybody is her friend. * * * 

MRS. MARION MITCHELL. 
STATE OF ILLINOIS 



COUNTY OF COOK. J SS ' 

Personally appeared before me, on this 11th day of April, 
1913, Mrs. Marion Mitchell, who is personally known to 
me to be Mrs. Marion Mitchell, who says that she dicta- 
ted and has read the above affidavit, and that the same 
is true to the best of her knowledge and memory. 

Signed and sworn to before me on the above day and 
date. HENRY FASH, 

[SEAL] Notary Public. 

These affidavits were presented to members of the A. M. 
A. at the Minneapolis meeting in June, 1913, and Simmons 
was deposed as Secretary but elected as "Editor and 
General Manager" by the society. Is he not a pretty 
specimen to run a "Propaganda for Reform?" 

In an effort to monopolize old-school educational facili- 

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ties, this Boss, through arbitrary classification of medical 
colleges in his Journal, through the ''Association of Ameri- 
can Medical Colleges" and through legislation in several 
states seeks to put a lot of them out of business, by demand- 
ing a longer term, "higher requirements" for admission, 
etc. But funny things are happening: 

While he classifies Rush and the Northwestern as the 
only real schools in Chicago, the Chicago College of Medi- 
cine and Surgery, affiliated with Valparaiso University, 
ran away ahead of Rush last year, leading by 220 students, 
and little old Bennett, of Loyola University, led the North- 
western by 199 students. The Boss says in his Journal: 
"An institution to be ranked as a medical college must 
have at least six (6) professors giving their full time to 
medical work," etc. A cheerful idiot's confession that the 
boasted "250 professors and instructors" of Rush, et al., 
are pure humbug. Just think of six (6) professors for 422 
students at Rush and six (6) professors for 196 students at 
the Northwestern, and six (6) professors for 642 students at 
the Chicago-Valparaiso school, etc. 

The Northwestern advertised recently, in the Chicago 
Daily News, that its requirements for admission include 
qualification in "Strong Traditions." They should have 
added "Esop's Fables" and "Mother Goose Melodies." 

It is all due to the Medical Trust tactics of persecution 
that the iniquitous dental, osteopathic, optometry, and 
other "laws" are on the statute books, each one of which 
laws "licensed by exemption" such chaps as G. L. Schneider, 
of Berkeley, California, president of the "American Associa- 
tion of Opticians" who sent a letter recently to "all state 
association presidents" to which he added this postscript: 
"I am glad there are at this writing thirty states with 
optometry laws; but still the question is asked: 'What 
do we get out of organization?' I can hardly conceive of 
any of our people being 'myopic' enough not to see that if 
it were not for organized effort there would be no opto- 

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metry laws in the country and optometry itself would still 
revel in the gutter.' ' 

"Revel in the gutter" is rich; but the entire postscript 
shows the spirit of monopoly, and the conduct of grafting 
boards demonstrates the evils constantly being done the 
public by restricting competition. 

The only way to force doctors to educate themselves up 
to date is to force them to compete with any sort of pre- 
tender who wants to practice. If the pretender is a fraud 
he will soon be forced to quit. If he does good the public 
will benefit. If he does harm, the victims have recourse to 
the courts, and, if necessary, to vigilance committees. 

We have no use for "Chiropractics," for example. We 
will not receive one in our school because we have found 
that people who are in that work haven't mathematics 
enough in their make-up to master our work ; but we would 
not ask a law to assume they are criminals. If they can do 
any good let them do it; if they do harm let their victims 
make them pay for it. The same is true of Christian 
Science and everything else — even including those humbugs, 
patent and prescription medicine. 

This is an age of progress. "Reformers" are anti-progress 
every time. But natural law will prevail and it will be the 
survival of the fittest after all. 

Now a word about the Newspaper Trust. We have a 
bad one in Chicago. The old-time axiom "molder of pub- 
lic opinion" struck in and developed a new one; "wield- 
er of the ax." If the Trust be not permitted to run every- 
thing it will wade in and smash everything it can. 

This year the "world's greatest newspaper" has been 
"exposing" the National Association of Manufacturers 
and members of Congress. It has also "exposed" a few 
gamblers who incurred its displeasure. One of its reporters 
went armed — contrary to law — on one of its "exposing" 
expeditions and shot a man who objected to being photo- 
graphed on the street. It has "exposed" some violators 

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of the Mann act and has, no doubt, done some good. But 
be it known here and now, that if all sorts of proofs were 
presented to the black-hand manager of that " world's 
greatest newspaper" that the worst traffickers in women 
are the big department stores, he would not print a line of 
it, because, forsooth, the advertising of those big stores 
withdrawn would kill his " world's greatest newspaper" 
in sixty days. 

Were it not that it would involve the names and time of 
women who cannot afford it, pecuniarily, we would give in 
detail the particulars of a recent occurrence at one of the 
big stores which is an exhibit of what is going on all the 
time, we are informed, and anyone can get the evidence 
who . is willing to take the trouble to do so — even the 
"world's greatest newspaper." 

Briefly, a girl, working for $8 a week and paying all her 
living expenses, was approached the first week by her 
department manager who offered to be her "friend"; 
she refused. Others approached her and were turned 
down; even other women in her department importuned 
her to be a ''good sport"; she refused and attended her 
work so well that she was promoted, without an increase 
of salary, however. Finally an opportunity occurred for 
her to leave the city, which she desired very much to do 
because she could better herself. At first those above her 
in the department recommended her highly and even 
offered her more wages to remain; but finally, when they 
found she was determined to go they not only took back 
their recommendations but informed her prospective em- 
ployer that she was an immoral woman. One of the men 
who thus branded her was one of the men who wanted to 
be her "friend." He is a highly moral (!) scoundrel who 
thus gets even with those who will not accede to his 
wishes. Happily his story, and that of another woman 
in the store, fell on deaf ears and the girl has a good place 
and a good home. 

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Does the "reformer" Tribune dare go after the depart- 
ment stores and other big employers of young women, 
or will it stick to its crusade against little cigar store and 
saloon gamblers — who do not patronize its advertising 
columns? 

The Ministers Trust praises the Tribune for its "reform' ' 
spasms and the black-hand manager prints their stuff as 
"news." Does any Chicago minister or set of them dare 
expose from the pulpits the conditions in the department 
stores? 

Beware of "reformers." They are the damnedest rascals 
of all. 



SOME OF OUR GRADUATES. 



Dr. G. S. Ames, DeFuniak 
Spgs., Fla. 

Dr. W. F. Aydelotte, Dixon, 
111. 

Dr. A. M. Bancroft, Salem, 
Ore. 

Dr. W. E. Bargar, Sycamore, 
Ohio. 

Dr. G. C. Bates, Alliance, 
Ohio. 



Dr. S. M. Bishop, Lockwood' 
Mo. 

Dr. G. H. Brower, 6 E. 5th 

St., Dayton, Ohio. 

Dr. J. W. Buchanan, Dickson 
Bldg., Norfolk, Va. 

Dr. J. C. Buchanan, M. St. 
N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Dr. J. J. Buswell, 1115 3rd 



Dr. D. S. Binford, 1512 Ave., Salt Lake, Utah. 
Arapahoe St., Los Angeles, Dr. C. O. Buis, McLeansboro, 

Calif. 111. 

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Dr. W. C. Carroll, Lebanon, Dr. R. H. Haverson, 892 

Ky. Broad St., Newark, N. J. 

Dr. J. J. Chapman, Keokuk, Dr. F. S. Hayes, Conroy 

la. Bldg., San Antonio, Tex. 

Dr. C. W. Crosby, 3310 Dr - J - s - Hedges, 7404 Lex- 
Harrison St., Kansas Citv, Mo. mgton Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. 

Dr. D. W. Dans, Six Mile . Dr ' Carl Hoerz ' Uttle FaUs > 

Run, Pa. J?" „ , . 

' Dr. A. Houtenbnnk, 651 E. 

Dr. F. H. Day, Pnneville, ?th ^ ^ Boston> Mags 

0re ' Dr. H. H. Hovda, Minot, 

Dr. F. Donnell, 809 Sabuttns x. Dak. 

St., Lewiston, Me. Dr. R. G. Hugo, 3118 E. 

Dr. Anna Doavus, Union- Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Mich, 

town, Pa. Dr. W. J. James, Excelsior 

Dr. A. O. Elliott, Savanna, Spgs., Mo. 

111." Dr. T. C. Jordan, SmitMeld, 

Dr. Mary Fargeman, Fergus X. C. 

Falls, Minn. Dr. E. L. Karnes, Carlin- 

Dr. St. G. Fechtig, 37 Madi- ville, 111. 

son Ave., New York City. Dr. J. G. Kenline, Ocean 

Dr. E. W. Feige, Huron, Beach, Calif. 

S. Dak. Dr. H. P. Kennedy, Tusca- 

Dr. T. Finlinson, Box 234, loosa, Ala. 

Idaho Falls, Ida. Dr. G. B. Kirkman, Kinston, 

Dr. C. X. Frantz, Salem, X. C. 

Ohio. Dr. F. A. Kloke, 35 Grove 

Dr. W. A. Fraser, Osage, la. Ave., Elgin, 111. 

Dr. A. C. Fuchs, Grand Ave., Dr. Otto Klug, Ellensburg, 

Milwaukee, Wis. Wash. 

Dr. T. H. Gadson, Mining Dr. R. Koerber, Ft. Wayne, 

Excg. Bldg., Denver, Colo. Ind. 

Dr. J. Garstick, Xiles, Ohio. Dr. E. LeClair, 605 Euclid 

Dr. L. O. Ginn, Alleghany, Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. 

Va. Dr. J. C. Lepler, Watertown, 

Dr. R. Glaze, Bisbee, Ari- S. Dak. 

zona. Dr. K. P. McXaughton, B. F. 

Dr. C. L. Gray, Lebanon, Coulter Bldg., Los Angeles, 

Tenn. Calif. 

Dr. D. M. Grinnell, Xo. Dr. R. T. McXair, Emporia, 

Yakima, Wash. Va. 

Dr. C. W. Harper, El Campo, Dr. T. H. Miller, Fairmont, 

Tex. W. Va. 

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Dr. J. L. Murphy, Livingston, 
Mont. 

Dr. C. H. Nerbovig, Manka- 
to, Minn. 

Dr. D. R. Paine, 718 Kansas 
Ave., Topeka, Kans. 

Dr. A. M. Peters, 17 E. Ma- 
honing, Danville, Pa. 

Dr. W. E. Petty, Mt. Peasant, 
Term. 

Dr. R. Pfister, Sheboygan, 
Wis. 

Dr. F. W. Piatt, Mansfield, 
Ohio. 

Dr. S. R. Quigley, 403 Cent. 
Nat. Bnk., Peoria, 111. 

Dr. M. O. Ranoe, 312 Medi- 
cal Blk., Minneapolis, Minn. 
Dr. F. B. Rebman, Stam- 
baugh Bldg., Youngstown, Ohio. 
Dr. J. E. Rice, Vancouver, 
Wash., 203 U. S. N. Bk. Bldg, 
Dr. J. H. Robinette, Conway, 
Ark. 

Dr. C. H. Rudd, Chamber 
Conun., Richmond, Va. 

Dr. E. A. Seelye, Prudden 
Bldg., Lansing, Mich. 

Dr. E. S. Sherrard, Sydney, 
Nebr. 

Dr. H. H. Speed, Rushville, 
111. 

Dr. R. Starcke, Beaver Falls, 
Pa. 

Dr. W. A. Small, 11 Devoy 
Bldg., Ironwood, Mich. 

Dr. H. M. Steetle, 710 Bel- 
mont, Caldwell, Ida. 

Dr. L. R. Stevens, Kinney 
Bldg., Newark, N. J. 

Dr. H. P. Sutton, McCook, 
Neb. 



Dr. A. H. Taylor, Goldberg, 
Bldg., Detroit, Mich. 

Dr. M. M. Tinsley, Welch, 
W. Va. 

Dr. H. P. Tourner, Bloom- 
ington, Ind. 

Dr. A. E. Trask, Galesburg, 

ni. 

Dr. A. L. Tucker, Connells- 
ville, Pa. 

Dr. W. Van Steenbergen, 
Sioux Center, la. 

Dr. F. A. Wambold, Lancas- 
ter, Wis. 

Dr. A. M. Ward, Abilene, 
Kan. 

Dr. E. A. Weiss,832 Hamil- 
ton St., Allentowu, Pa. 

Dr. C. Whalen, 17 E. Kings 
St., Lancaster, Pa. 

Dr. C. J. White, Rolfe, la. 

Dr. T. H. Wilson, Warren, 
Ohio. 

Dr. B. Wilson, Salem, W. 
Va. 

Dr. F. E. Weeks, 210 Percy 
St., Elgin, 111. 

Dr. Anna Carter, 6131 Wood- 
lawn, Chicago, HI. 

Dr. A. V. Griffith, 4317 W. 
Mad. St., Chicago, 111. 

Dr. H. B. Kidd, Williams 
Bldg., Vancouver, B. C, Cana- 
da. 

Dr. Geo. A. Kuenzig, Girard, 
Pa. 

Dr. J. T. Jackson, Wood- 
lawn Pa. 

Dr. E. A. Burke, 619 Locust, 
St. Louis, Mo. 

Dr. C. W. Burkhart, 2700 E. 
3rd St., Dayton, Ohio. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 
Inspired by President Wilson's Sickness. 

When President Garfield was shot by Guiteau and 
lay for weeks at Elberon, New Jersey, the doctors in 
charge of his case made fools of themselves and disgraced 
their profession in their wild ambitions for advertising 
which their code of ethics has always taught is undignified. 
The gang have kept it up ever since and have gone so 
far as to have a presidential physician. Dr. Wood was 
made a General in the army, after which he abandoned 
his profession, and accomplished more by his sanitary 
measures in Havana, Cuba, when he put in drainage 
and did away with the causes of yellow fever and mos- 
quitoes, than all the health boards of North and South 
America ever accomplished. All doctors are not damned 
fools and General Wood has proved my point, therefore 
I find pleasure in hoping that the Republicans will nomi- 
nate him for President in 1920. Having unusually good 
sense he will be able to dispense with the White House 
physicians, the Medical Trust and take care of himself. 

The present incumbent, in President Wilson's case, 
is "Admiral" Grayson who, I understand, has never had any 
naval training. His actions, and those of his colleagues, 
presumably called in by him for the same old advertising 
purposes, have demonstrated the incompetence of the 
average Trust doctor. Of course it is only fair to concede 
that they have had a very peculiar patient. Mr. Wilson 
appears to be obsessed with the idea that the executive 
has sole control over treaties and United States business 
in general, while a very large number of citizens, who are 
familiar with the history of the country are in a state of 
alarm lest his acts during the past year precipitate not 

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only this country but others into almost insurmountable 
difficulties. He may be aware of the possibilities to him- 
self, but when his physicians have undertaken to dictate 
to him and have succeeded in keeping him from work 
they have opened the way for his opponents to circulate 
news suggestive of insanity which I do not believe are 
warranted by the facts for two reasons: First, Mr. Wilson 
has belonged to the pedagogic class for many years and 
when he turned to politics has been so successful in win- 
ning New Jersey and the country; second, after my little 
accident in July the Medical Trust doctors who had some- 
thing to do with the case, told me in brutal language, 
when I proposed to leave the damned grafting hospital 
crowd, come home and go to work, finishing this book, 
etc., they would send me to Kankakee or Dunning insane 
hospital. All of this was based on my physical resistance 
to some of their surgical methods, all of which were foolish 
and entirely without warrant. I came home after telling 
them that if they undertook any such crooked work I would 
send some of them to the penitentiary, or, failing in that, 
I would fight them to death. I began work by limiting 
myself to what our System of Mature Medicine teaches 
and in eight weeks I have finished the book, with this 
little chapter, prepared copy for the next issue of Mature 
Medicine, made up a lot of sleep I lost at the hospital, 
nearly restored to normal the bad arm I got in my fights 
with their bullies, and have gained thirty-six pounds; I 
want to say right here that our school has graduates near 
Washington who are competent to take President Wilson's 
case, treat him respectfully and sensibly, and by our 
Neurometric methods of measurement and analysis show 
him exactly where he stands physically and metaphysi- 
cally, then permit him to use his own judgment about 
working. 

The suggestion inspired by the situation has to do 
in a general way with that branch of our Neurometric 

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work designated "disposition and temperament." It is 
possible for these two characteristics to be found different 
in some cases, but as a rule they are alike in the respect 
that a person of good temperament is usually of good 
disposition. The President's disposition, that is his atti- 
tude toward others, does not impress us as being better 
than very medium — we classify as good, fair, medium, 
and bad. Such being the case it is very likely we would 
find a dubious temperament, that is he would be unreason- 
able in caring for himself; but that is no reason why we 
should conclude he was insane. We have taken many 
such cases and made very well and rational people out 
of them. 

The attitude of Congress toward the President is more 
suggestive of insanity than anything he has done is. The 
Senate should have repudiated his treaty the first day 
after it was presented or have endorsed his acts and taken 
the consequences. The people of this country are of 
several classes : first, we have unscrupulous wealthy interests 
who would establish a monarchy here that would out- 
shine that of old Bill Hohenzollern and soon develop an 
era such as they had in Russia when they killed Czars; 
the next class is, the black-leg politicians who have been 
infesting Congress and other legislative bodies for the 
last three decades; they are known as "pork-barrelers"; 
another class comprises the majority of labor unions and 
the "reds" who have infected them mentally with an 
incurable disorder that is sure to bring not only to them 
but to the whole country a series of disasters which will 
not abate until they are exterminated; a fourth class 
includes all of us who, loving our fellow creatures, loving 
health and happiness and being satisfied with the share 
we naturally get, would not fit into any other classes — ■ 
we are in one respect like the Chinese who have shown 
marvelous tolerance to the abuses by other nations for 
generations but who are now on the verge of an uprising 

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which, when it occurs, will teach the bull-dozers a lesson. 
Incidentally, we are reminded daily by the news reports 
that the war is not over and Germany has not been whipped 
a minute. Her people and their sympathizers are as 
treacherous as ever and as determined to yet see "der 
Tag." While his critics are roasting Mr. Wilson I can't 
see why they don't hit the English and French managers. 
Were it not that I despise the old scoundrel so, I might 
wish to see him in power about twenty-four hours, in which 
event I would bet a good deal that he would demand the 
Presidents of the United States and France and the King 
of England, and he would execute them as he should have 
been executed long ago. Those of us who have lived as 
long as President Wilson has, or longer, and have been 
situated to observe events and read history would be 
very dumb indeed if we did not arrive at some of these 
practical conclusions. As long ago as 1904 August Bebel, 
a noted German writer, in a book entitled "Woman under 
Socialism" proved himself a philosopher in the true sense 
of the word, "lover of truth," and he also proved himself 
a man of thought and action when, after frank criticisms 
of the "wholly unnatural state of things" produced by 
the profiteers and the heads of the government, he pre- 
dicted thus: "If some day this tremendous apparatus is 
set in operation — when the hostile forces of Europe will 
take the field with twelve or fourteen million men — the 
fact will appear that it has become uncontrollable. There 
is no general who could command such masses; there is 
no field vast enough to collect and set them up ; no adminis- 
trative apparatus that could nourish them for any length 
of time. If battles are delivered hospitals would be lack- 
ing to shelter the wounded; the interment of the numerous 
dead would be an impossibility." He predicted "the 
next war is the last war," and several other events which 
have occurred; but he predicted that "the political and 
military state of Europe has taken a development that 

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cannot choose but end in a catastrophe which will drag 
capitalistic society down to its ruin. Having reached 
the height of its development it produces conditions that 
end with rendering its own existence impossible; it digs 
its own grave; it slays itself with the identical means 
that itself, as the most revolutionary of all previous social 
systems, has called into life . ' ' The last quotation shows 
Bebel to have been misled by his socialistic associates. 
It is one of their hobbies which appears "red" to me, 
because they hope for the destruction of the profiteers 
and militarists individually. The class to which I belong 
takes a different view. We know that Bolshevism was 
the natural product of Czarism, but we can't see that it 
improves matters any. We have no use for the Wall 
street crowd who control the American press; no sym- 
pathy with the hay-seeds in Congress and Legislatures 
who do the bidding of bosses; we despise the strikers in 
mines and elsewhere as idiots who imitate the tactics of 
Wall street but have added a thirst for blood which makes 
them dangerous, and if the former brand of "society" is 
annihilated its successor will be the most diabolical imi- 
tation the world has ever seen. 

In another chapter I have submitted a biographical 
sketch with an explanation for the offense. I revert to 
it here merely to say "I am a graduate of the case"; I 
have had about fifty years of experience as an observer, 
employe, employer, but I have never had the slightest 
desire to be a leader among mankind — the reason for that 
is I have seen the ambitious ones reach the pinnacle of 
success and then seen them fall deep in the mud and I 
said, "there's nothing in it." In pursuing my studies for 
many years as a newspaper man and teacher since 1880 I 
have found it continually impressed upon me that if I can 
talk and write and print such things as will make people 
think for themselves I have done all that can be required 
of me. 

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CHAPTER XIV. 
Economic Situation in America, Nineteen-nineteen. 

This year is the record one for all history to date, for 
economic disturbances. First, the scandals in connection 
with the management of the war expenses, the arbitrary 
commandeering of the railways, telegraphs, telephones 
and cables. Second, the "peace" wrangle, extending over 
months. Third, the " League of Nations" farce. Fourth, 
the profiteers, from the traitors who robbed the Government 
on badly filled contracts at outrageous prices, to the food 
profiteers, who destroy a large per cent of the foodstuffs 
in order to hold up high prices for the balance. Fifth, the 
anti-liquor fanatics, politico-moral tactics. Sixth, the 
woman's suffrage agitation. Seventh, the I. W. W. 
bombing outrages and other "propaganda." Eighth, the 
attempt of organized labor to control everybody and 
everything, work six hours daily, five days in the week 
and draw as wages what would be double pay for ten 
hours daily, six days in. the week. 

Just think of a milk-wagon driver being paid $35 per 
week and a commission! Think of a bum plumber getting 
70 cents to $1.00 an hour for the same work his father was 
glad to do for $3.00 a day! 

Reference to statistical tables shows the number 
employed in the following branches of industry: 

Bakers 89,000 Carpenters .817,000 

Barbers 195,000 Cooks 450,000 

Blacksmiths 240,000 Compositors .127,000 

Brakemen 92,000 Conductors... ..125,000 

Butchers .124,000 Engineers .....187,000 

Cabinent makers.... 41,000 Electricians 135,000 

Candy Makers 30,000 Hostlers 63,000 

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Janitors 113,000 Plasterers 47.000 

Launderers 111,000 Plumbers... 147,000 

Machinists 487,000 Porters 84,000 

Masons 170,000 Pressmen 20,000 

Miners.. 965,000 Roofers..... 14,000 

Molders 121,000 Sailors 46,000 

Motormen 60,000 Stonecutters 35,000 

Musicians 139,000 Switchmen 85,000 

Painters 335,000 Teamsters 409,000 



Total 6,153,000 

The entire population of the United States is over 
100,000,000. Those engaged in farming alone are 5,865,000. 
Salesmen and women, 921,000. Teachers, 600,000. Book- 
keepers, 486,000 — four items, aggregating, 7,692,000, none 
of whom are habitual strikers; nearly three-fourths being 
producers of foodstuffs; the rest consumers, who have to 
join the other 90,000,000 population in paying the damages 
resulting from the disorders of the anarchistic few out of 
the total six millions of trades workers who are to be charged 
with nearly all disturbances. 

A labor union is no more un-American than any other 
union for selfish purposes; but, unfortunately, being con- 
ducted by shrewd, ignorant men, they not only rape the 
public but outrage the rights of individuals to seek health 
and happiness, without paying tribute to any save the 
country which guarantees those rights — and doesn't make 
good. 

One of the bad features of unionism is the example they 
set to others, merchants, for instance, who are organized 
secretly, because of the "laws" in restraint of trade, and 
manage to hold prices of commodities above all reasonable 
limitations, rendering inferior service in the matter of 
quality of goods sold. 

Another is the domination of Greeks, Italians, and other 
foreigners, in the markets of cities, large and small. Not 

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only in the towns, but in the gardens, they rule. California 
is overrun with Japanese, other states by non-citizens, who 
expect to make their fortunes here and go back to their 
own countries, where they can imitate the millionaires of 
this country in the practice of snobbery. 

Another is the out-and-out criminal element among the 
foreigners, which commits nine-tenths of the felonies. The 
police records are replete with unpronounceable names 
of "skis," "witches," "aks," etc. Many of them have the 
right to vote, on pretense of becoming permanent citizens, 
and the political "American" traitors use them to win 
elections; hence, no laws restricting immigration can be 
secured, unless the American people abandon the old parties 
and vote solidly together. 

Another is the "lodge" business. I have been a Mason 
thirty-eight years, and know from experience and obser- 
vation that, while they have their good features, they are 
bad on general principles. The Catholic church fought 
them for centuries, then organized the Knights of Columbus 
thus repudiating its own principles. Members have had 
no compunctions in telling me they all vote as one man, 
on the instructions of the priests. Happily, all the other 
secret societies are arrayed against them, and some of the 
harm which might otherwise be inflicted is aborted; but 
that does not save the country from possibilities. They 
are as un-American as the labor or medical or capital unions. 
The "oaths" administered to members are relics of barbar- 
ism and are constantly violated in their treatment of one 
another, as well as in their conduct toward outsiders. 

Another is the untaxed church property, secured by the 
avaricious and unscrupulous "union" principles. While 
thus protected, they all proceed to tax members to the 
limits of their capacities — all in the name of "God." We 
were told by Doctor Benjamin Rush, at the time the Con- 
stitution of the United States was adopted, that there 
should not be tolerated any state religion or state medicine, 

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or we would have oligarchies. Religion was made "free," 
and medicine was permitted to develop its monopolies; so 
we have examples of both sides of the question, as then 
presented. It is plain both were false premises, because 
both have held sway at great cost to the people. The only 
Natural method of handling them is to wipe all legislation 
in such behalf off the statute books ; thus making the people 
free and independent, by taking away from all the right to 
force their dogmas on any, save by the Natural force of 
logic, something so foreign to orthodoxy that it would mean 
the emancipation of the entire citizenship. 

The "god" business has always been a humbug. Chris- 
tianity has been on exhibition for nearly two thousand 
years, and the only thing it has accomplished in the way of 
proving its theorum is the evidence that the "Christ" was 
right when he said: "I come not to bring peace, but the 
sword." Wars have increased in magnitude and cruelty. 
The last one was forced on the world by a fanatic who 
imagined "me und got" constituted a duality of invincible 
qualifications, and that "me" was to get the proceeds — he 
got them, because the powers of Nature worked in the 
minds of the rest of the world to the end that over 7,000,000 
soldiers and sailors lost their lives, at least 30,000,000 more 
were maimed, uncounted millions of citizens starved, and 
millions of women and girls were sacrificed on the altars of 
Christian lust. Such is the latest record against religion. 

The artificial "cure medicine" outrage has an even 
worse record: To its machinations and experiments are 
chargeable the great increase in "skin diseases," venereal 
disorders, drug addicts, and the "patent" medicine mil- 
lionaires. Let us examine that record in conservative 
England. In 1892, Alfred Milne, M. A., London, who was 
one of the leaders in forcing the repeal of the compulsory 
vaccination law in that country, wrote : 

"The first of our compulsory vaccination laws was 
passed in 1853, and the years that have rolled away since 

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then have been years of unceasing and ever-growing protest 
by large masses of our countrymen. In the ten years ending 
with September, 1889, our judicial statistics record 23,572 
prosecutions under these acts. Vast as is this total of 
manufactured crime — crime the direct product of coercive 
law — it is but a fraction of what it would have been had not 
all prosecutions been abandoned in most of the centers of 
revolt, such as Leicester, Keighley, Oldham, Halifax, 
Gloucester, the great East-end metropolitan unions, with 
their teeming populations, of Hackney, Shoreditch and 
Bethnal Green, and numerous others wherein the coercive 
policy has been abandoned, and offenders have been left at 
peace. Yet, as fast as one city or one union has been won 
for liberty, the opposition has sprung up in another, to go 
the old weary rounds of prosecution, at first conducted with 
energy and virulence against the recusants, whereby those 
recusants fail not to become popular in the district; then 
the toning down of the persecution before the rising wave 
of popular indignation ; and at last the election of an anti- 
compulsion board of guardians, and the local collapse of the 
law. Thus, as soon as one place is free, another can always 
be found in the throes of the struggle, and hence it is that 
the annual return of prosecutions is so far from decreasing 
that the year 1888 afforded a total of 2,809, the highest for 
many years since the passing of the law. 

"So great a mass of dissatisfaction with the law of the 
land we live in would be a serious matter in any case. But 
in this case it is made doubly grave by the character of the 
accused. All over England — I may claim to know them as 
no other living man does know them — and I describe them 
without hesitation as the salt of their class. Come with me 
into the northern Midlands, where there is to be held an 
anti-vaccination meeting. The Midlands are keen upon 
the question and the meeting is sure to be a good one. It is 
a 'mushroom' township I shall take you to, a village called 
into being by the changes that have of late years taken 

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place in the boot-making industry. But the little houses 
are trimly built under the eyes of their present occupiers, 
who have bought them through building societies, and paid 
for them out of hard and scanty earnings by aid of a thrift 
and energy which have known how to wrest a victory from 
the grasp of circumstances against seemingly the most hope- 
less odds. The meeting is to be held in a hall into which the 
audience has a right to invite us, for they have built it them- 
selves, and own it in one-pound shares. And when the 
meeting is over and the vaccination acts have been duly 
condemned in a rattling resolution, carried unanimously, 
you shall not go without a bite of supper and a cup of ex- 
cellent cocoa. Beer is scarce and whiskey scarcer, for they 
are nearly all temperance men. 

"And here be it noted that in all the years of its exist- 
ence, and among the thousands of its victims, this particu- 
lar criminal law has never caught a drunkard yet. Friendly- 
society members, building-society purchasers and their 
neat, trim, tidy homes, with bookcases and harmonium, 
bear witness to their thrift; their well-shod, well-groomed, 
well-taught children are living testimony to their love; their 
lives without are circled with respect, and within are 
hallowed with affection. Such a man was C. W. Nye, of 
Chatham, who, under the law of 1867 spent nine and a half 
months in Roohester gaol. A watchmaker, with hands 
made delicate by his trade, was set to wheeling stones for 
prison repairs, till, in his own words, 'the handles of every 
barrow that I wheeled were stained with my blood. ' Such 
another man was William Ball, of Leicester, arrested by the 
police while his four children were kneeling with him at 
evening prayers. No land, not even such a law-abiding 
land as ours, can afford to secure the bodies of such men for 
their country's gaols, and their hostility for their country's 
law. Under no circumstances could we afford it; least of all 
when, as I shall try to show is here the case, the wrong is 
wrought in support of the false. 

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"This, then, is what I have to show — the truth of two 
perfectly independent propositions: that vaccination is an 
error, and that its compulsion is a wrong. Independent 
in this sense, that whether I succeed or fail in convincing 
my readers of the truth of the first, I have still an un- 
impaired and equal right to be heard upon the second. Of 
many things held excellent in themselves, civilization has 
abandoned the legal compulsion; and the burden of proof 
lies ever on those who deny that the respect which all 
profess to pay to the theological conscience should be shown 
also to the scientific conscience. For this is just the main 
motif of our indictment of the vaccination law — that we 
refuse to bow before the spirit of persecution when no better 
reason is vouchsafed us than that the spirit, changing its 
language but not its speech, has found new names for its 
ministers, who now threaten liberty with pestilence in the 
identical tones wherein freedom was once menaced with 
perdition. 

"I submit, then, that vaccination is an error, and in 
support of that thesis I now endeavor to show that the 
claims put forward on its behalf are false. To consider 
them all is impossible; a year's entire issue of the Arena 
(from which this article was taken) would ill suffice for such 
a task. But some few of them I will take as examples of all 
and will state them and meet them in such broad outline 
as the available space will permit. 

"Claim I: Protection. — If you are vaccinated, you 
will not take smallpox at all. This was the original 
claim. Listen to the words of Edward Jenner himself, as 
written on page 7 of his original 'Inquiry into the Causes 
and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae* : 

" 'What renders the cowpox virus so extremely singular 
is that the person who has been thus affected is forever after 
secure from the infection of smallpox; neither the exposure 
to the variolous effluvia nor the insertion of the matter 
into the skin producing this distemper. ' 

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"Nor was this the mere dream of an over-sanguine and 
enthusiastic inventor. In 1857, Mr., now Sir, John Simon, 
for so long the high priest of the vaccine cult in England, 
wrote, on page 14 of his 'Papers Relating to the History 
and Practice of Vaccination/ and in 1871 repeated in the 
appendix to the 'Report of the Select Committee on Vacci- 
nation/ page 351, these words: 

" 'On the conclusion of this artificial disorder, neither 
renewed vaccination nor inoculation with smallpox, nor the 
closest contact nor cohabitation with smallpox patients, 
will cause him to betray any remnant of susceptibility to 
the infection/ 

"Moreover, our vaccine teachers have cut themselves 
adrift from the saving grace of a judicious hedge by the 
declaration of the Lancet, of February 2, 1888: 

" 'Smallpox is a disease from which anyone may be 
absolutely protected by vaccination and revaccination, so 
that to have it is almost a crime/ 

"There can, then, be no doubt about the manner of plea 
by which our vaccination laws were passed and are main- 
tained. 'Absolutely protected' — nothing could be clearer 
than the statement unless, indeed, it be its refutation by 
the facts. For when we come to test the extent to which 
so uncompromising a promise has been redeemed, we are at 
once confronted by a long and dreary history of failure. 
The first law was passed in 1853. Since that date we have 
had three leading epidemics of smallpox in the country. 
The first, 1857-9, killed 14,244 of the people of England and 
Wales; the second, 1863-5, killed 20,059; and the third, in 
1870-2, destroyed 44,480. Between the first and second 
epidemics the increase of the population was 7 per cent, 
and that of the epidemic was 40.8 per cent. From the 
second to the third the population increase was 9 per cent, 
and the epidemic increase was 123 per cent. And when 
smallpox again broke out in London, in 1881, coming upon 
a city 90 per cent of whose inhabitants were at the time 

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officially claimed as vaccinated, it was confessed that of the 
491 patients admitted into the Highgate Hospital, the 
principal of i;he hospitals then receiving smallpox patients, 
no less than 470, or 96 per cent had been vaccinated. So 
that, comparing the proportion of vaccinated patients to 
total patients inside the hospital with that of vaccinated 
population to total population outside the hospital, we find 
vaccination left six per cent to the bad. 

"In the Lancet of August 27, 1881, we read of an out- 
break of smallpox at Bromley, a suburb of London, where 
occurred forty-three cases, all vaccinated, and three re vac- 
cinated, of whom two died. In the appendix to the Army 
Medical Report, for 1885, page 442, we find the detailed 
report of surgeon I. Boulger, on fifty cases of smallpox 
among the English troops in Cairo. Re vaccination is 
de rigeur (not any more) in the British army, and re vacci- 
nation is expressly admitted with respect to thirty-eight of 
these cases, including the four fatal ones. In the Lancet for 
February 23, 1884, we read of an outbreak of smallpox in 
Sunderland, comprising a hundred cases, whereof ninety-six 
were vaccinated. And in the more recent history of 
Sheffield, the history from which, by some wonderful pro- 
cess of self-persuasion, that vaccinationists have managed 
to extract so much comfort, we find the broad record of 
vaccinal failure writ in characters no less clear. 

"For years and years the force of compulsory vacci- 
nation goes no further than it actually went in Sheffield. 
The vaccinations have been brought to within five per cent 
of the births accountable. Nor can the quality of vaccina- 
tion in Sheffield be impugned. It must be remembered that 
under the vaccination act of 1867, government inspectors 
periodically overhaul the work of public vaccinators, and 
if satisfied of its excellence may award an extra payment, 
over and above the regular fee already paid, to an amount 
not exceeding one shilling per case. For the last thirteen 
years Sheffield has never failed to earn a good round sum 

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of this reward for vaccinal excellence, amounting in the 
aggregate to £2,603. And in thirteen months, ending 
March, 1888, she obtained as the reward of her faith 6,088 
cases of smallpox; or a case for every half-sovereign of bonus 
and 882 over, as a kind of reduction on taking a quantity. 
In this misguided city, revaccination reigned supreme all 
the time of her trouble. 'Nearly every man you meet/ 
wrote the Daily News, in its article on 'Striken Sheffield,' 
'has his arm in a sling/ The Times wrote, on November 23, 
1887, that revaccination had by that time become general 
in the city. The plague ought, therefore, to have been 
stayed. Yet the deaths, which for the months from June 
to November, inclusive, had been 2, 3, 11, 21, 60, 75, 
respectively, rose during the ensuing four months to 105, 
113, 98, 101, respectively; thus affording a remarkable 
confirmation of the opinion expressed by that eminent 
vaccinist, Dr. Guy, in the Journal of the Statistical Society 
for June, 1882: 'It is now admitted by all competent 
authorities that vaccination during epidemics of smallpox 
tends to diffuse rather than arrest the disease, and that 
instead of being practiced at such times it should be sus- 
pended. ' Of course, it is not my fault that this distin- 
guished physician thus rules the whole of the medical 
officers of the local government board out of the category 
of 'competent authorities. ' That is only one more item 
in the unanimity of the unanimous profession. I am more 
concerned to compare the facts of the history of vaccination 
with the promises and professions of its advocates, and to 
watch whether the one will have any effect on the other. 

"What has become of the first great claim on behalf of 
vaccination? The facts have killed it, and when Sir John 
Simon came to be cross-examined before the Royal Com- 
mission then sitting on the question in London, its chief 
sponsor had to bury it. Confronted with the passage from 
the 1857 papers, which I have quoted above, and asked if 
he still adhered to it, Sir John was compelled to reply, 'My 

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meaning was only as to the immediate time.' (Q. 175). 
So that an absolute protection for all time, to say nothing 
of eternity, is thus reduced to a convalescence-prophylaxy 
of five minutes or less; and Claim I confesses itself a corpse, 
at all events wherever the ignorance of the auditor does not 
tempt it to galvanize itself into a false and fraudulent 
assumption of its own continued existence. 

"Perhaps I may be reminded that it was for re vaccina- 
tion that the passage quoted from the Lancet claimed 
absolute protection. But the subject of re vaccination has 
already been alluded to in respect of the army, and to 
this it only needs to add, in more precise terms, that the 
ordinance for the revaccination of all recruits on joining the 
colors was promulgated in 1859; since which time there are 
acknowledged to have occurred in the British army 3,953 
cases of smallpox, with 391 deaths. In the well-known case 
of the steamship Preussen, bound for Australia at the end 
of 1886, on board of which smallpox broke out, there 
occurred, to say nothing of the emigrant passengers, 14 
cases amongst the 120 hands of the crew; and of these 6 had 
been vaccinated before going to sea, vaccinated a third 
time with glycerine-diluted lymph on board and vaccinated 
a fourth time at Melbourne with calf lymph there obtained. 
In the report of the medical officer for the city and county 
of Hereford, England, for the year 1888, it is said of a gentle- 
man attacked with smallpox that 'he had a very sharp 
attack, although he had been vaccinated and revaccinated 
no less than four times, with any amount of marks there- 
from. ' And Dr. Barry, when examined before the Royal 
Commission, admits that a revaccinated death from small- 
pox had already occurred in the epidemic at the time when 
the town council had issued a notice that no revaccinated 
case had been reported as having died (Q. 2,624). During 
the Sheffield epidemic 48 unsuccessful and 26 successful 
revaccinations were followed by attacks of smallpox. 

"But, strong as this direct evidence is, the question of 

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revaceination is yet better approached indirectly. Its 
advocates propose the universal imitation of the Prussian 
law, enforcing revaceination at the age of twelve. But in 
the great pandemic of 1871-2 smallpox attacked, in Berlin, 
alone, 2,240 vaccinated children under ten years of age, and 
of these 736 died. How could revaceination at the age of 
twelve have saved them? And if primary vaccination will 
not protect a child of ten years, how can a second vaccina- 
tion at twelve years old render an adult safe for life? 

"The claim of real protection is thus smashed, destroyed, 
and pulverized by the resistless logic of facts. But here be 
it noted, and by all concerned never forgotten, that it was 
protection passed the law. But for the reiterated plea that 
in vaccination was to be found real safety from a terrible 
disease, the compulsory law would never have found its way 
into the statute books of England. The plea may have been 
and doubtless was, urged originally in the bona fides of 
ignorance; but, be that as it may, it is now known on all 
hands that so far the law was passed on false pretenses. 
Hence, I shall submit that it is a reasonable demand that 
the freedom which the false pretenses induced us to part 
with should be restored to us, and that the law which was 
passed by error should no longer be maintained by worse. 
(Thanks to his efforts it was repealed.) For the protection 
claim is now given up on all hands. To show this we have 
only to turn to any authoritative statement of: 

Claim II: Mitigation — Such a statement we find in 
Dr. Husband's 'Student's Handbook of Forensic Medicine/ 
in these words: 'The proper view to take of vaccination 
appears to be this — that it does not prevent smallpox, but 
modifies its virulence.' Now the first and most obvious 
remark to make on this plea is that, if it claims to make a 
statement of actual fact in any actual individual case, it 
clearly claims to know the unknowable. For it must be 
clearly understood that long enough before the birth of 
Jenner, smallpox was of every degree of severity, the most 

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mild as well as the most terrible. In the year 1722, Dr. 
Wagstaffe wrote in his 'Letter to Dr. Friend ' on the subject 
of smallpox as he knew it at that early date : 'So true is that 
common observation that there is one sort in which a nurse 
cannot kill, and another which even a physician can never 
cure.' Since, then, there was plenty of mild smallpox in the 
days before vaccination was known, it is obviously impossi- 
ble to say, of any individual case of post-vaccinal smallpox, 
how badly that patient had meant to have it if he had never 
been vaccinated. 

"If, therefore, this claim is to be supported at all, it must 
find that support in some alleged statistical basis. And 
that basis is alleged to be found in the comparative fatality 
rates of the two classes, the vaccinated and the un vac- 
cinated. As with most other matters connected with this 
controversy, the medical accounts of the results of this 
process vary extremely, but they all point in the same direc- 
tion; they all exhort us to consider the terribly high death 
rate amongst the un vaccinated. For instance, Dr. Thomp- 
kins, of the Manchester Fever Hospital, gives a fatality 
rate of 62 per cent as his experience of unvaccinated small- 
pox. But to this manner of reckoning there is, fortunately, 
a check, for there is nothing more certain than the fatality 
rate of smallpox during the last century when all were un- 
vaccinated; and that rate was a little over 18 per cent. In 
fact, to raise it to this point it is necessary to include much 
of the smallpox of the severer types of the London smallpox 
hospital of the time, which was, of course, vastly inferior 
to the hospitals of the present day in every sanitary respect, 
and in which the fatality was even then exceptionally high. 
At all events, the evidence is overwhelming that the fatality 
of smallpox did not, as a rule, exceed in pre-vaccination 
times this 18 per cent, and frequently fell far below this 
figure. 

"And far lower percentages than these can be found 
recorded. Isaac Massey, writing in 1727 of his experience 

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with pupils of Christ's Hospital, perhaps, better known 
abroad as the 'Blue-Coat School/ declares: 'Here, in the 
Natural smallpox, but one in forty-nine died; and I can 
assure the reader that upon a strict review of thirty years' 
business and more, not one in forty of the smallpox patients 
of the younger life died, that is, about five under eighteen.' 

"Not to unduly prolong a weary list of quotations, I will 
only add, from Q. 5359-60 of the evidence taken before the 
Royal Commission, that the list of smallpox cases collected 
by Jurin for the years 1724-27, with one epidemic added by 
Dr. Scheuchzer, totals 18,229 cases, with 3,008 deaths, or 
almost exactly 16.5 per cent. 

1 'Hence this 18 per cent which eighteenth century small- 
pox did not exceed as its general fatality rate, is of the 
utmost importance to all who would wish to really grasp one 
of the most striking issues of the vaccination controversy; 
for it enables us to meet these allegations as to the high 
fatality rate of the unvaccinated nowadays with the simple 
process compounded of a subtraction sum and a pertinent 
question; as thus: when a medical authority, e. g., Dr. 
Tomkins, as quoted above, alleges 62 per cent as the unvac- 
cinated fatality rate, we go to work like this: 

"Nineteenth century unvaccinated fatality.— 62 

"Eighteenth century unvaccinated fatality.... 18 

"Then, please, who kills the remaining 44? 

"If these figures are right, they show that nineteenth 
century doctors are allowing sixty-two patients to die for 
every eighteen that would have died under the care of their 
eighteenth century predecessors. And as everyone, even 
including the nineteenth century doctors, must see this to 
be impossible, it only remains to inquire whence such an 
error can originate. Its starting point does not seem far to 
seek. It will be found in the difficulty of recognizing the 
marks of vaccination when the patient is covered with the 
eruption of the disease. A severe case is a confluent case, 

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a confluent case hides the vaccine marks, and the record 
being kept according to the visible marks, the severe cases 
have thus a, natural tendency to find themselves described 
as un vaccinated cases. The exact working of this principle 
cannot be better appreciated than from the words found on 
page 25 of Dr. Russell's report for Glasgow, 1871-2: 'Some- 
times persons were said to be vaccinated, but no marks 
could be seen, very frequently because of the abundance of 
the eruption. In some cases of those which recovered, an 
inspection before dismissal discovered vaccine marks, some- 
times very good.' Remarkable confirmation is here afforded 
in a report by the medical officer of Congleton on a recent 
(1889) outbreak of smallpox there. We are told: 'Cases of 
confluent smallpox likely to prove fatal, in the eruptive and 
especially in the suppurative stage, are so disfigured that a 
mother, brought into a ward with several of them, would be 
unable to pick out her own son from among them. This 
being so, is it not too much to ask any intelligent being to 
believe that reliable observations were made as to the 
number of such comparatively minute objects as vaccina- 
tion scars? If any medical man of position who has had 
experience in the treatment of smallpox cases will say that 
the inference I have drawn is not warranted, I shall most 
gladly admit myself in the wrong, but for the present my 
recent experience of cases not fatal warrants me in saying 
what I have done. In two severe cases I made an attempt 
to find vaccination scars during the eruptive stage, but 
failed, and found, subsequently, they were well vaccinated;: 
and in two comparatively mild cases I counted in the one 
one scar, and in the other three, but subsequently found 
they had respectively, four and eight/ 

"Here is the matter in a nutshell. Classed as unvac- 
cinated for want of visible marks, if they die, they swell 
the fatality rate of the un vaccinated; but if they recover r 
they are found to be vaccinated, and the vaccination gets 
the credit of having saved them. So that, to this alleged 

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fatality amongst the unvaccinated we answer only that it 
is not that they die because they are unvaccinated, but 
they are classed unvaccinated because they die. And so 
long as the overhead fatality is not materially reduced, so 
long, that is, as the patients, taken in a lump, vaccinated 
and unvaccinated together, fail to show a largely diminished 
fatality, so long the alleged virtues of vaccination stand" 
disproved, so far as mitigation goes. 

"Moreover, on this question of mitigation, there remains 
one more thing still to be said. I would avoid entering on 
the discussion of those scientific aspects of vaccination 
which have already been so well displayed before the 
readers, but I cannot avoid remarking that this claim of 
mitigation is altogether out of analogy with most of the 
theories which profess to explain vaccination as a prophy- 
lactic Those who attribute benefit to the vaccinated from 
their vaccination have really had an attack of the smallpox, 
though not the human variety of the complaint. They 
have, it is said, the smallpox of the cow, smallpox modified 
oy its passage through the animal economy. But to this 
theory as applied to mitigation by vaccination, there are at 
least two objections: First, that it is not true in fact; second, 
that though it might do for an explanation of a vaccinated 
immunity from attack, it is quite without precedent as an 
explanation of mitigation. Of no other of the acute exan- 
themata is it even plausibly contended that a former attack 
makes the second onset of the same complaint any milder. 
Of various diseases it does seem to be true that one attack 
prevents another altogether; but whenever such protection 
is overcome, and the enemy breaks through the defenses, 
it is apt to cast off all discipline and to sack the place. There- 
fore, for this claim of mitigation we have it that, as it is 
without justification in the facts, so it is without precedent 
in science. This Naturally leads us to a consideration of 

Claim III: Vaccination, Previous smallpox — This 
was the plea whereunto Jennerwas driven as failures multi- 

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plied. In Barron VLife of Jenner,' vol. ii, p-135, we read: 
'Duly and efficiently performed, vaccination will protect the 
constitution from subsequent attacks of smallpox as much 
as that disease itself will. I never expected that it would do 
more, and it will not, I believe, do less.' We may pass by 
the wonderful change that had come over the spirit of 
Jenner's dream since he wrote those sounding words about 
the vaccinated being forever secure. Let us stick closely 
by the facts, and these facts are, I maintain, given exactly 
and tersely in the formula: 

" 'Mitigation by vaccination = mitigation by previous 
smallpox = 0.' 

"For the second cases of smallpox are, as a rule, very 
severe cases, with a high fatality rate. Thus Dr. Seaton,. 
in his 'Handbook of Vaccination, ' says: 

" 'Haeser states, on the authority of Regoni Stern, that 
at Verona, in the ten years 1829-38, twenty-four cases of 
second smallpox had been noted, eight of which were fatal; 
and Heim reports, in the epidemics in Wurttemberg, 1831-5, 
fifty-seven cases of recurrent smallpox, of which sixteen 
died; and in subsequent epidemics, eighty-six cases, twelve 
of which were fatal.' 

"This gives a total of 167 cases, with 36 deaths; a mortal- 
ity of 21.5 per cent. The most recent evidence is to the 
same effect. The fatality of recurrent smallpox in the 
Sheffield outbreak was 25 per cent. 

"Claim IV: Decrease of Smallpox Since the Intro- 
duction of Vaccination : — Opponents of vaccine law often 
find themselves reproached in some such terms as the follow- 
ing: 'The ravages of smallpox used to be much more terrible 
than they are now. There can be no doubt that smallpox 
has diminished since the introduction of vaccination, and 
what more do you want?' We reply that we want a great 
deal more. We want some little evidence of the causal 
connection between the two; we do not want to be involved 
in a mere post ergo propter. It is just this causal connection 

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which we deny, and we think we can justify our denial. We 
ean call to witness that very Epidemiological Society which 
was so largely instrumental in passing the first law for the 
eompulsion of vaccination. In 1855, we find them mem- 
orializing the president of the board of health on the seri- 
ously large proportion of the births which still escaped 
vaccination, and estimating that not more than from 10 to 
15 per cent of these births are being vaccinated by private 
practitioners in addition to the public vaccinations. Now 
before 1840 all vaccinations were private; so that we have 
it on the authority of the Epidemiological Society itself 
that up to 1840 not more than 15 per cent of the births were 
being vaccinated at all. Nevertheless, we find from the 
1853 report of the same society that the ratio for London 
of smallpox deaths to every thousand from all causes had 
fallen from 108 in the decade 1750-60 to 23 in the ten years 
ending 1840. If all of this change was effected without any 
compulsion, and with only fifteen per cent of the births 
vaccinated, why is any compulsion necessary? The truth 
is that the decline of smallpox had set it before vaccination 
was heard of, and long before it had been carried out to an 
extent which could have had any appreciable effecton the 
death rate. The late Dr. Farr observes in his article, 'Vital 
Statistics/ in McCulloch's 'Statistical Account of the 
British Empire/ 'Smallpox attained its maximum after 
vaccination was introduced; this disease began to grow less 
fatal before vaccination was discovered ; indicating, together 
with the diminution in fever, the general improvement in 
health then taking place.' Thus smallpox, during the last 
' few years of the last century, was trying hard to die out, 
and the inoculators were trying no less hard to stamp it in ; 
and vaccination got the credit of a change with which it was 
indeed contemporary, though to that change it never was 
contributory. 

"But I may be exhorted to compare the behavior of 
other diseases, if I would see the influence of vaccination 

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on this particular one. I am willing to do so to any extent, 
on one condition, that the diseases to be compared may be 
fairly comparable. Smallpox is one of a great group of 
diseases, and for fair comparison we must remain within 
the limits of that group, and make our comparisons with 
other zymotic fevers and exanthemata. And first, broadly, 
what of the diseases which have come and gone without any 
vaccinal interference? Where is the Black death now? 
Where is the plague now? The dread typhus, which, in the 
days of the Stuarts gave such a terrible significance to the 
phrase, 'rot in gaol/ is all but gone, though innocent of 
vaccinal expulsion. Let well-vaccinated Sheffield declare 
whether plague or cholera or typhus, for which we had no 
vaccination, is more or less to be dreaded than that smallpox 
against which we are so well protected by vaccination that 
'to have it is almost a crime. ' And if it should be urged that 
we ought to examine this claim with more exactness than 
is possible to so broad an historical view as that just taken, 
I none the less maintain that so far from the decline of 
smallpox having been unique among diseases, such exami- 
nation will show that it has hardly been remarkable. In 
the before-quoted work, Dr. Farr long ago remarked : 'Fever 
has progressively declined since 1771; fever has declined 
in nearly the same proportion as smallpox/ And the figures 
Dr. Farr gives us are these: 

Deaths per 10,000 living. 
1771-80 1801-10 1831-35 

Fever 621 264 111 

Smallpox 502 204 83 

"And the same principle may be carried on to later 
dates with no result save to strengthen it. Let us turn to 
the fiftieth report of the English Registrar-General, and 
take the evidence of Table 17, p. lvi, as to the comparison 
of the quinquennium 1866-70, in which compulsion was 
made perfect, with the last one given, viz., 1881-5. We 
obtained this result: 

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Average Annual Death Rate per Million Living in 
Two Quinquennia Compared. 

1866-70 1881-5 Decrease % 

Smallpox 105 78 25.5 

Scarlet fever 960 434 55.0 

Fever — typhus, typhoid, 

ill-defined 850 272 68.0 

Cholera 172 16 91.0 

"The figures for cholera have been added on account of 
its peculiarly epidemic character, though for many reasons 
it is not strictly comparable with smallpox; but to the other 
diseases in the table there is no such objection. The table 
shows smallpox as having actually the smallest diminution 
in its death rate of any of the three fever groups. Other 
diseases are thus shown to have been better fought without 
the aid of vaccination than smallpox has with it. But the 
evidence does not stop here. Looking at the London returns 
we find the Registrar-General writing in his 1880 report on 
the decennium then ending : 'It will be found that the saving 
of life was almost entirely due to the diminished mortality 
from causes whose destructive activity is especially amen- 
able to sanitary interference — namely the so-called zymotic 
diseases. The death rate from fever fell nearly 50 per cent. 
That of scarlatina and diphtheria fell 33 per cent. One 
disease alone in this class showed exceptionally a rise, and 
no inconsiderable one. This was smallpox, which, owing to 
the two great outbreaks of 1871-2 and 1877-8, gave a death 
rate nearly 50 per cent above the previous average.' 

"So that, in this great city, the only disease against 
which we are supposed to be guaranteed, is the only one 
amongst the zymotic group which shows 'exceptionally a 
rise.' The claims made on behalf of vaccination break 
down on all sides as soon as really impartial scrutiny is 
applied to them. On the other hand, the examples of 
Leicester and Keighley, where vaccination has been all but 
entirely neglected, prove beyond question that a com- 

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munity may be thoroughly protected against the spread of 
smallpox by sanitary measures, even though the disease be 
not unfrequently introduced into its limits from the well- 
vaccinated districts round. 

"It is often urged that the opposition to vaccination is a 
sentimental opposition. But I submit that there is little 
enough of sentiment in the dry facts and drier figures where- 
in my argument has so far been set out. Not that I mind 
the taunt; I have no shame of sentiment, which, after all, 
is but the fool's name for the pursuit of righteousness; and 
I am coming to the sentiment by and by. But so far from 
mere sentiment being the burden of my song, I claim to be 
the bearer in this matter of one of the sternest and the 
hardest of Nature's man hard, stern messages. I am trying 
to bear witness that Nature's politics know no compromise, 
and that in matters sanitary the wages of sin is death. The 
sentimentalists on the other side protest that this is too 
cruel a message to deliver to the poor. But I did not make 
the message, nor do I deliver it to the poor alone. I tell the 
rich : 'It is not safe for you to leave Lazarus crying unheeded 
at your gate. If you do, his sores shall plague you, his 
disease shall smite you, his suffering shall be your anguish, 
and by his death you shall die. It is no use to try to dodge 
fate by forcing upon Lazarus a little more domesticated 
dirt. It is no use to try to get to the back of the north 
wind with a little bit of tame filth caged in a capillary tube. 
You must go for better dwellings ; by a policy of open spaces 
you must make passages for the winds that blow; you must 
let in the light of heaven; you must lay the water on. And 
then, as the sterness of the threat drives you further on the 
road to righteousness, you may turn with growing hope 
from threat to promise, and, being clean, may claim to live.' 

"I pass to the second part of my contention, and now 
affirm that the compulsion of vaccination is a wrong; and 
I put my reasons for that conclusion into the comprehensive 
statement that the justifications of it are false. As before, 

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but still more briefly, I proceed to state them as I find them 
urged by compulsionists, appending a few words of reply 
to each: 

"Justification I : Unanimity of the Medical Profes- 
sion. — The doctors, we are told, are unanimously against us, 
and surely they ought to know, so we ought to submit our 
judgment to theirs. I reply that the very reverse is true. 
So far from the medical profession being unanimous on the 
question, there could hardly be found a matter within the 
limits of which more numerous and more fundamental 
differences are to be found between different members of 
the profession. I venture to affirm that no proposition 
could be framed with respect to the theory or the practice 
of vaccination, but its direct contradictory could be quoted 
from pro-vaccinal medical works of equal authority. 

"In answer to the question, 'How many marks should 
be made on the child's arm?' we find among physicians of 
unimpeachable vaccinal orthodoxy, that Drs. Drysdale 
and Lee say, 'One;' Dr. Adam, of Liverpool, says, 'Two;' 
Dr. Grenhalgh, of London, says, 'Three;' the local govern- 
ment board demands four; Dr. Sand with, of Wandsworth, 
says, 'Five;' Dr. Debenham, London, says, 'Six;' Dr. 
Curschmann, the great German authority, says, 'Twelve, 
six on each arm;' Dr. Bond, of Gloucester, says, 'The more 
the better.' Thus has vaccine progressed, from the original 
single scratch of Jenner, which any old woman could make 
with a needle, up to an apotheosis of tattoo. 

"Justification II: The Un vaccina ted Are a Public 
Danger. — It is held that if a man lived alone, we might allow 
him to have smallpox at his pleasure; but that as we live 
in society, we cannot permit the unvaccinated to take a 
disease which they may communicate to others ; and there- 
fore we are forced to compel vaccination in self-defense. 
To this I reply no man can give away that which he has not. 
The unvaccinated must have smallpox before their having 
it can be a danger to anyone else; and where are they to get 

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it from? The evidence is overwhelming that when smallpox 
attacks a community it does not commence with the un vac- 
cinated. When the great pandemic struck the town of 
Bonn, the first un vaccinated case was number 42; at Col- 
ogne the first un vaccinated case was 173; at Leignitz the 
first un vaccinated case was 224; whilst, when we come 
nearer home, at Bromley, before alluded to, every person 
had been vaccinated. But if vaccination is to protect, how 
can the unvaccinated be a danger to the ones protected by 
vaccination? And if it only mitigates, the same as previous 
smallpox, then so far as contagion is concerned, one case of 
smallpox is like another, and the unmitigated, because 
unvaccinated, cases are neither more nor less a public 
danger than the vaccinally mitigated ones; this being so, 
the public has no more concern with my choosing to take 
my smallpox without mitigation than with my taking 
coffee without milk. The plenitude of fear shows paucity 
of faith; and when a man declares, as a man did a little 
while ago in London, that he had been vaccinated five 
times, but he wouldn't live in the same parish with an 
unvaccinated child, he demonstrated with an eloquence I 
cannot hope to rival that his faith in vaccination was on a 
level with my own. Vaccination is either good or bad. Its 
goodness removes the need, as its badness destroys the 
right of enforcement on the unwilling. 

"Justification III : It Does No Harm. — We enter here 
upon a portion of our subject where satire dies upon the 
saddened lip and sorrow reigns supreme. It is also the 
portion where the batteries of modern investigation have 
been turned with most ruinous effect upon the fortresess of 
the old beliefs and the old assertions. As a consequence, 
efforts have, of course, been made to show that no such 
plea has been urged by any who have been of recognized 
authority. But the allegation is false, and it comes too late. 
No less a writer than Mr. Simon, in the papers from which 
I have quoted, says, speaking of the advantages of vaccina- 

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tion, that 'against this vast gain there is no loss to count ;' 
and I venture to think that no assertion ever did more to 
rivet the bolts of our compulsory vaccination. The same 
eminent authority quotes, without a word of disapproval, 
numerous experiments, heartlessly and treacherously per- 
formed, with hideous results, on the children of the helpless 
poor, with the purpose of showing no other infection than 
that of mild smallpox is possible in vaccination. The names 
quoted are all those of men in the front rank of the contest, 
including Blache, Heim, Rochot, Debar, Bousquet, Sig- 
mund, and many others. And, coming down to more 
modern times I find in a pamphlet, now before me, entitled 
'Facts Concerning Vaccination, for Heads of Families, 
Revised by the Local Government Board, and Issued with 
Their Sanction/ the express declaration: 'The fear that a 
foul disease may be implanted by vaccination is an unfound- 
ed one/ Let us now turn to the facts:" .... 

"Here Mr. Milner quotes at length from the Registrar- 
Generals' records and shows that under a heading, "Cowpox 
and Other Effects of Vaccination" are registered 418 
•deaths. He tells of a public inquiry, in which it developed 
that there were hundreds of deaths in which the death 
certificates did not assign the true cause; that one medical 
journal advised the omission of all reference to vaccination 
in death certificates, proving that there were medical 
rascals then as there are today. From parliamentary 
returns No. 392, Session 2, 1880, and 372 of 1888, he gath- 
ered statistics for a period of years under three different 
conditions, which follow: 

Average Yearly Deaths Under One Year, per Million 

Births. 



-2 <u 

O 00 O 



Voluntary vaccination, 1847-53 564 817 168 351 2,981 

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Obligatory vaccination, 1854-67 1,206 781 253 611 3,385 
Enforced vaceination, 1868-86.. 1,788 785 387 1,037 4,426 

Showing that four out of the five disorders show a 
terrible increase, and all persons with common sense must 
charge that increase to the experiment. 

Quoting from other tables of the Registrar-General's 
office, Mr. Milne shows a marked increase in infantile 
erysipelas from 1859 to 1880, and on up to 1890. He tells 
of Mary Clarke, who, being sure that she had lost one child 
from vaccination, and, being summoned before the court 
for violation of the "law," drowned herself and last child 
rather than be tortured. 

As a result of his work and that of his colleagues, the 
compulsory feature of the act was repealed in the 80's and 
has never been restored. It has been attempted to restore 
it, but the people asserted themselves and the government 
heeded. 

I have devoted space to extracts from the article in the 
Arena in commemoration of the good work that magazine 
did for the cause, and to show that, as usual, the United 
States people are far behind old England in progress. If we 
believe in liberty, let us fight for it. I shall, so long as I live, 
whether anyone else does or not. I was one of the "scrof- 
ula" victims of vaccination, and I never mastered the 
situation until I discovered, about thirty years ago, the 
fact that Nature has provided means for immunity and 
that Her laws work even on those who have been sufferers 
from the curse of artificial prophylaxis and therapy. 



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Prospectus 



The following pages will serve to enlighten the 
Public in the matter of what students are taught 
and how we teach it, as compared with the ortho- 
dox schools. 

They will also give Prospective students the 
particulars they need in order to prepare them- 
selves for the work here. They should read all 
carefully, understandng that we mean just what 
we say, and nothing else. Let none ask us for 
favors which require changes in our schedules or 
which would be impossible to grant to all; for it is 
a hard and fast rule here that we treat all as nearly 
alike as we can. 

We have condensed the work into the shortest 
possible time of accomplishment, with hard work 
and nothing else to occupy students attention; 
henee none can finish quicker than the time 
specified. Merely serving time will not be suffi- 
cient; grades of 80 per cent, or better must be 
made in all branches. 

These are the days of autos, airplanes, telegraph, 
etc. The old schools still adhere to the ox-cart 
methods, which is one of the causes of their de- 
cline. The chief cause, however, is Public Educa- 
tion, to such an extent that said Public thinks 
analytically more than ever, (that is the leaders do), 
and the fallacies of Religion and Medicine no longer 
deceive. 



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McCORMICK MEDICAL COLLEGE 

Founded 1893. Incorporated in Illinois. Not for 

Profit. 



A School for the Study of Causes of Human Ills and 

How to Abolish Them Without Drugs or 

Operations. 



A System of Mature Medicine. 



The Continuous, Consecutive Teaching Methods, 
Originated by and Employed only in this school, Save a 
Lot of Time and Money to Students and Their Education 
is More Thorough than is Possible in the Old Schools, no 
matter how much time They Require. 



We Accomplish More in a School Year of Nine Months 
than the Medical Trust Schools do in Four Years, because 
we Teach Physics, Chemical and Mechanical, at the Be- 
ginning of Work in Each Department. Then we Combine 
Anatomy, Physiology and All of the Allied Subjects in 
such a manner that the Story Grows as we Tell It and the 
Students Become Thoroughly Practical. 



We Have Normal Standards in Every Subject for 
Purposes of Intelligent Comparison and Understanding. 
We Teach a Lot of the "Regular" Stuff to Show Why It 
Is Wrong. Old-school Graduates Who Have Taken Our 
Work Say It is the first place they ever saw where "Medi- 
cine Is Practiced by Arithmetic." Ours Is Truly "A Sys- 
tem of Mature Medicine." Analysis Supplants Diagnosis. 



Our Fees, for Tuition, and in Practice, Are Higher 
Than Those of Any Other School of Medicine; but the 
Superiority of Our Work and of That of Our Graduates 
Warrant Them and Make Them Cheapest in the End. 
The Routine of Our Courses is : 

First, Three Months in the Department of Ophthal- 

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mology, 1,000 hours of Work, which not only lays the 
Foundation for the General Course, but Affords an Inde- 
pendent Course, a Superior One for Limited Practice, 
with the Degree Doctor of Ophthalmology. 

Second, about the first of January any year after Finish- 
ing the Course in Ophthalmology such Students are Elig- 
ible to the General Course, provided they have made 
Grades of 100 in Physics; otherwise they must enter the 
General Course in the fall and repeat the Ophthalmological 
Work. There is no extra charge for this — we are not mer- 
cenary: we demand competence. This course runs from 
January to June, inclusive, 2,000 hours, with no time for 
play. Proper Exercise is a part of our Course, so no one 
is overtaxed. We do not accept invalids as students. We 
have Denominated This Our Department of Neurology 
and Graduates receive the Degree Doctor of Neurology. 

Third, Following graduation in Neurology students 
practice Fifteen Months, after which they are eligible to 
reenter the College any Fall and take Nine Months more 
work, reviewing what they had before and getting the 
necessary technical old-school work to qualify for State 
Examining Boards. Thus they will have had Four Years 
of the Very Best Schooling and will receive the Degree 
Doctor of Medicine. It is expressly provided that no one 
is eligible to this course who, we may have reason to sus- 
pect, would practice drug medicine & he had a license to 
do so. No one who is honest would think of such a thing 
after taking Our Ophthalmology and Neurology. We 
recommend this course for the Review of Our Work and 
the Knowledge of What Others Are Doing in Detail. Our 
graduates are then Doubly Superior to the old-school 
doctors. 

Fourth, Our Special Post-Graduate Course for Li- 
censed Old-School Doctors gives them credit for experience 
in practice and Four Months of Hard Work qualifies them 
to practice "A System of Mature Medicine." Degree 
Doctor of Neurology or Doctor of Medicine, by election. 



We have No Correspondence Courses in any Depart- 
ment. No post-graduate courses, except for Physicians. 
Our announcements mean exactly what they say, and 
people who write for concessions only waste their time. 
We have reduced the work to a schedule to which both 

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Students and Ourselves Must Adhere Rigidly. Some who 
have been practicing "optometry" and have regarded 
themselves as highly competent, announcing themselves 
as "members of the Scientific Section of the American 
Association of Opticians," found, when they came up 
against our work that they didn't know first principles. 
They came proposing to take a couple of weeks to "brush 
up." We offered them the course free if we failed to prove 
they were in Total Ignorance of True Optics and Oph- 
thalmology. We will supply their addresses if any doubter 
wants to ask them. They didn't get the course free, either. 
But they value what they received for their money. 



Requirements for Admission: At Least a Good Com- 
mon School Education; Honesty of Purpose; Willingness 
to Work Hard; Good Character and Personality; Respect- 
ful Conduct and Conformity to the Rules of the Institution. 



Tuition Fees, Payable Strictly in Advance: 

Ophthalmology, Three Months $250 

Neurology, Six Months Additional 250 

Final Course, Nine Months Additional after 15 months' 

Practice 250 

Post-Graduate Course for Licensed Physicians 250 

Payments to be made in Cash, New York or Chicago 
Drafts, Post Office or Express Money Orders, Except that 
we will accept Liberty Bonds at Par. The banks charge 
exchange on every other sort of money orders than those 
enumerated. Country bankers who advise people to bring 
personal check books to Chicago, or anywhere else are not 
the friends of their depositors. They are greedy and want 
to get the 10 cents charged for collecting checks on their 
banks. A "Cashier's" check on any bank outside of Chi- 
cago or New York is no good at either place. Insist on 
Drafts or the Cash. Show this to your banker if nec- 
essary and if he tries any bluff let us know and we will 
give his bank a free "puff" in "Mature Medicine," our 
quarterly publication, which circulates everywhere. We 
do not lend money or cash personal checks. The Insti- 
tution was not organized for profit, has never made any, 
does not intend to. We work for nothing other than actual 
expenses of living and usually pay that from our private 
resources. We do not solicit students and only accept 

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those who come up to requirements. No Fakers or Slackers 
need apply. Some call us "Cranks." We are content. 



We have always contended that the quicker a student 
can be educated, the better it is for him or her; and, by 
our consecutive method of instruction, sticking to a single 
subject until it is mastered, we accomplish more in any 
given length of time than can be done in any other manner. 
The Germans have stuck to the seven years of schooling 
in medicine and years of training to make their soldiers. 
Yet our American boys, with a very few months training, 
went after the Prussians and whipped them to a "frazzle" 
in short order. The old schools of medicine are now agi- 
tating a plan to adopt the consecutive system. Of course 
they do not confess they are imitating us, but they are; 
and they will have to learn one thing before they adopt it, 
which is that they have no teachers capable of doing the 
work and will have to qualify them first. 



Students may live at the college at reasonable rates; or 
they may secure quarters in the neighborhood, which is 
first-class. There are advantages in being here all the 
time. 



None need apply who expect to make their stay a 
carousal. It means hard work and plenty of it to get 
through; but we provide recreation so there is not a dull 
moment during the term. 

McCORMICK MEDICAL COLLEGE, 

Chicago, 111. 



First — Know what you want to do. 
Second — Know why you want to do it. 
Third — Know how to do it. 
Fourth — Know how to prove it. 



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NEUROLOGY, A SYSTEM OF MATURE MEDICINE. 

People who have become disgusted with orthodox 
medicine should be more careful in accepting alleged "new" 
systems than they were in toleration of the old. 

We have been conducting McCormick Medical College 
for over twenty-five years. We were trained in the old- 
school methods; but we discovered something older than 
their artificial materia-medica, and in general armamen- 
tarium. In point of years our school is new, compared 
with the Allopathic, Homeopathic, Eclectic and Physio- 
Medical schools of practice; but, in principles we have 
the oldest of all methods, because the laws we teach are all 
as old as creation. 

We have been asked, often, "What is Neurology?'' 
We reply: It is a term employed in the orthodox schools 
to designate the department of study of the nervous sys- 
tem, just as myology is the department of muscles, angi- 
ology that of the blood vessels, etc. But we use it to dif- 
ferentiate our general methods from those of the drug 
schools, and for the purpose of making the point that all 
ills are really nervous ills ; that all other branches of study 
are subordinate, and auxiliary to the nervous system. 

When we think of the years of work we have put in 
digging and of the months of hard work our students have- 
spent in becoming proficient, we have sometimes been 
indignant at the question, because of the supercilious 
manner in which it has been asked. But, on reflection T 
we relaxed with pity for the ignorance which has been 
fostered by old-school doctors and their allies, the clergy, 
and we respond : "Do you think a general system of med- 
cine, such as the old-school doctors practice, could be ex- 
plained to you in a few minutes, or even hours?" Of 
course they reply, "No." Then we add: "Neurology 
means the science of the nervous system, which includes 
everything the old-schools teach and then so much more 

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that there is no room for comparison. It requires nine 
months of the hardest kind of work to tell our story in a 
continuous, consecutive, comprehensive manner, and two 
teachers do all of the work. They put in more hours in 
that nine months, with their classes, than the entire corps 
of professors in any of the old-schools do. They work in 
the class-rooms six hours daily, four days of each week, 
and they stick to a single subject for days at a time until 
it is mastered by the students, instead of giving smatterings 
of half a dozen subjects each day by as many professors. 
One hour in our school may not be worth more than one 
in the old-schools; but at the end of the first day our stu- 
'dents all know something for sure, while the old-school 
victims are muddled. Hence one month in our school is 
worth more than six months in any other medical insti- 
tution. Ours is a modern arrangement for the saving of 
time and money to our students, and, at the same time, 
giving them a far better course of instruction. 

Neurology is A System of Mature Medicine) A System 
of Analysis of the Causes of Human Ills and How to Abolish 
Them Without the Use of Drugs or Surgical Operations." 

Of course there are cases in which operation is nec- 
essary; but we insist they are comparatively rare and we 
have proved this by taking cases who had been operated, 
not only without benefit, but with great additions to their 
troubles, and have, in a few months, enabled Nature to 
regain her ascendency, restoring health and happiness 
such as is guaranteed the right to seek by the Constitu- 
tion of the United States to all its citizens. 

For information to the interested we append a list of 
branches of study included in our several courses, leading 
respectively to the degrees, Doctor of Ophthalmology, 
Doctor of Neurology and Doctor of Medicine. In another 
place, the manner of taking the courses is given, and the 
reader will please remember there are no deviations from 
the plan, as other schools have practiced. We do not want 

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people as students who are so presuming they ask ' 'credits" 
and other favors offered by many schools as inducements 
to secure students. We have a mathematical system and 
we endeavor to set a good example by practicing it rigor- 
ously. Because we do four years' work — of the old schools 
— in nine months, is no excuse for anyone assuming that 
we are dishonest and do not mean what we say. We have 
a clean record and propose to keep it that way: 

Physics — this includes the laws of light, refraction, 
reflection, absorption, and dispersion; prisms, construc- 
tion and functions; lenses and their combinations; prescrip- 
tions for lenses and how to transpose and analyze them; 
mathematical drawings and calculations, illustrating vari- 
ous applications of laws and their absoluteness. Also the 
laws of chemistry which controls the composition and dis- 
integration of matter, including the body and the foods 
it subsists on. 

Metaphysics — The effect of the mental states upon 
the physiological conduct of the nervous system and its 
auxiliaries; and the effects of physiological disorders^on 
the mentality. There is nothing mysterious about it and 
the futility of "absent treatments" is proved. A neu- 
rologist must see patients and analyze their conditions. 
Anatomy — This is practically the same as in all other 
medical schools; but our methods of teaching it are 
so superior to others that our graduates do not "forget" 
when they go out into practice. They use it daily. We 
do not do dissecting, because it is a rank humbug. We 
forced the admission from Dr. Upham, president of the 
state board of medical examiners, of Ohio, and a pro- 
fessor in the medical school at Columbus, who is a gradu- 
uate from the University of Pennsylvania, that he only 
dissected a piece of an arm during the years he spent in 
that institution. No medical school could furnish one 
cadaver for each student and if they did he could not learn 
as much from dissecting it as he can from teachers who 

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know their business and from reliable text books, which 
are available. 

Physiology — Our teachings refute, almost totally, the 
old-school doctrines, and, like our anatomy, they stick, 
because our doctors use them every day in their practices. 
The neurologist knows what constitutes true physiology, 
that is normal action, hence, when he meets abnormalities, 
he recognizes them at once and knows what to do because 
we have taught him to anticipate all sorts of possibilities 
and be prepared for them. 

Ophthalmology — This is our primary or entrance de- 
partment. No school ever attempted what we do through 
the eyes. This course is, in itself, a system of practice 
which is superior to all others save our own full course. 
We have stated elsewhere that nerve strain through the 
eyes is the primary cause of eighty-five per cent, of all 
human ills. Our graduates from this department, to the 
number of over 4,000 are in practice all over the world, 
and have done more good for the "chronics" and "incur- 
ables" of the old-schools than all other methods ever ac- 
complished. They have straightened cross eyes without 
operation, thousands of times; they have done it even 
after old-school "oculist" operations have failed. They 
have removed the causes of female troubles which baffled 
all the surgeons and physicians; they have abolished the 
causes of headaches and many other symptoms, which 
the old-schools teach are "diseases." 

Myology — This refers particularly to the study of 
muscles of which there are hundreds in the body, some 
single and some in pairs; also the ligaments and tendons 
associated with them. This is coupled up with osteology 
on one side and nerves, blood vessels, etc., on the other, 
so that the student learns the real reason for anatomical 
study is physiology. We teach methods of manipulating 
muscles which often makes operations not only unnecessary, 
but ridiculous, if not actually criminal, in some instances. 

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Organon — We teach the structures, locations and 
interdependence of the several organs, the nervous energy 
required to operate each, what return is given, if any, and 
how it is done. It is a very pretty chemical and mechan- 
ical proposition which makes our old-school graduate 
students open their eyes and wonder why they never 
thought of some of the things themselves. 

Circulation — Where it begins, how it acts, what causes 
the action and where it ends. The disorders it is most 
liable to, and how to prevent them when they exhibit 
symptoms. It is true that all ills are nervous ones, but 
it is equally true that the cause is often found in the blood. 
The old-school puzzles are solved easily and thoroughly. 
This includes the lymphatic system, the portal, pulmonary, 
arterial and venous systems of blood circulation. 

Pathology — With us this is reduced to Symptomatology, 
-and the symptoms are tested, statically and dynamically. 
We have no names for "diseases/ ' although we often use 
the old-school names to make our explanations clear to 
patients who have learned something of them from others. 
Then we show that the so-called "diseases" which are 
regarded by the orthodox doctors as causes of troubles, 
are really the symptoms of disordered physiology. We show 
how to use symptoms to find causes, but we never treat 
a symptom, nor by one. 

Classification — All cases are classified and patients 
are given reasons for placing them, the meanings of symp- 
toms and the necessity for obedience to Nature's demands 
as indicated thereby. When all this is made clear none 
but fools would neglect to follow instructions. The re- 
sponsibilities for successes or failures rest entirely on the 
patients, as they should. 

Materia-Medica — Food chemistry, qualitative and 
quantitative, compared with the old-school drug text- 
books, both theoretically and practically. The principles 
of chemistry are employed in a natural manner, and put 

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the artificial practices of the old-schools in the ridiculous 
and criminal classes as we find they belong. 

Bacteriology — We make it ridiculous to a very large 
extent by submitting old-school text-books and current 
experiments. It is a source of merriment, and a means 
of exposing rascality of Medical Trust practices politically 
and otherwise, particularly in the Army and Navy. 

Gynecology and Obstetrics — Two different but closely 
allied subjects, which are not taught at all properly in the 
orthodox colleges. We go to the bottom of the subjects 
from all sides, mental, physiological, social and otherwise. 

Pediatrics— The disorders of children constitute one 
of the greatest branches of neurological study. It couples 
with the subjects in the paragraph preceding. 

Dietetics — This is our materia-medica, which only 
works in conjunction with our other therapeutic measures. 
The old-schools teach that their materia-medica has 
"curative" powers, independent of everything else. A 
foolish proposition, on its face. Our Diet Charts are com- 
prehensive, even to laymen. 

Body Chemistry — We rate the circulatory system 
next to the nervous, and the lymphatics as the most im- 
portant of it. We show, in a manner simple and convinc- 
ing, how one person will exhibit "smallpox, " another 
"epilepsy," another "erysipelas," another "rheumatism," 
etc., all from the same causes; also how different causes 
may produce similar exhibits. 

Food chemistry — The essential body elements are 
supplied from the food we eat, digest and assimilate; hence 
the composition of foods and how to combine different 
articles to make them come within the capacity of the 
body chemistry to appropriate is a very important matter. 
Old schools do not teach anything about this subject and 
never did. 

Dynamic Tests — Are involuntary and voluntary ex- 
hibits of nervous distribution, supply and demand, made 

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by patients under our methods, which are never attended 
with the slightest possibility of harm to them. 

Static Tests — Are made in several manners, which 
are shown better than described. They are checks on the 
dynamic ones. Sometimes they corroborate; at others 
they dispute the dynamic. Then we proceed to other 
tests to settle the question. This is how we substitute 
Analysis for the old-school Diagnosis, which means, lit- 
erally, two guesses; but they usually make more than that 
number. 

Physiological Nerve Strain — This is found in many 
parts of the body, but we lay particular stress on eye 
strain and bad eating; thus chemistry and mechanics are 
best represented. 

Mental and Physical Shocks — We classify these in the 
order of possibilities and probabilities and provide theo- 
retically and practically for handling them when they ex- 
hibit. 

Sex Disorders — The old-schools do not teach this 
subject at all. They do dilate on "venereal" disorders 
and their medication ; but the big subject, the one of great- 
est importance to mankind, they do not touch at all. We 
go to the bottom and all sides of it. We have found nothing 
"obscene" in it and we teach it the same as we do anatomy 
and physiology — indeed that is just what it is chiefly; 
there is, however, a mental side which we include in our 
course. 

Osteology — Our methods of instruction and practice 
of this subject are so superior to "osteopathy" that there 
is no room for comparison. The old school never taught 
anatomy as they should or there would have been no 
opening for the fad "osteopathy," (sick bone). There is 
some good in the practice of that alleged system, but it 
has the same weakness exhibited by the old schools: It 
is a one-idea system and its practitioners want to bulldoze 
all other "cults." They are imitations of the Trust. 

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Hydrotherapy — Few people know how to utilize baths. 
We teach how to reduce a fever in a few minutes and how 
to keep it reduced. How to handle "pneumonia," "rheu- 
matism," and many other acute disorders in a manner 
which is not only safe but sure. 

Massage — This goes with or independent of osteologic 
manipulation. It fits better with hydrotherapy. For 
patients who have creaky joints and "muscle pains" — 
really nerve pains in muscles — the combination of bath 
and manipulation has no equal. 

Therapeutics — Summing up our agents are Mental, 
Physical, Physiological; Chemical and Mechanical; all 
Rational and absolutely Harmless methods, as compared 
with the Habit-forming, Drug-debauching, Experimental, 
Politico-Medical oligarchy represented by the Medical 
Trust schools. 

Financially — We make our students competent to 
not only do the very best work, but to be expert case- 
takers and get the very best fees for their services. This 
is one of the most important features of professional prac- 
tice. We have it reduced to tabular form, based on Na- 
tural laws, and it works all of the time. It is a part of 
our Neurometer, (nerve measure), copyright by us, in 
Washington. Details are reserved for students. 

On the whole our system of practice is as different from 
all others as Nature is different from Dogmatism. We 
know what the others mean when they talk of "osteo- 
myelitis," of "infantile paralysis," of "hook-worm," and of 
"flu;" but we also know the utter impossibility of any two 
cases being exactly alike, hence the fallacy of any proposi- 
tion to treat them according to the "contraria contraris 
curantur" or similia similibus curantur" plans. We can 
form a general opinion of almost any case if the sufferer 
writes us the symptomatic exhibits, but we could not, 
hence we would not attempt to conduct a case on such 
meagre information. Physicians often write us asking 

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what we would do for "arterio-sclerosis," as if they believe 
we have some specific treatment for such conditions, which 
will apply to all cases alike. They certainly pay us a high 
compliment by the request; but they shame themselves 
when they regard us as impostors because of our frank 
replies. We have been extraordinarily successful in such 
cases, but we handle no two alike. Nature did all of the 
curing; we only assisted the patients in setting up condi- 
tions which gave natural chemistry a chance. 

There are so many points of difference between A 
System of Mature Medicine and the orthodox schools, 
and their one-idea imitators, that it would be difficult to 
enumerate them all; but here are some of them: 

1. Old schools are divided into General Practitioners, 
Surgeons, and "fifty-seven varieties " of Specialists. The 
first named sends a majority of his cases to the others be- 
cause his education was so deficient he cannot handle them; 
and the specialists do little if any better than the others 
could if they would use common sense. Our graduates 
know their work so well that they only need ever enlist the 
services of a dentist or a hospital surgeon; and these only 
because Analysis of a case shows the necessity, in order to 
save a life, of sacrificing a part to save the rest of the body. 

2. The manner of teaching in the old schools is such 
that no one could become competent to deal with human 
ills if ten years, instead of four or six, were spent under 
tutelage; because: (a), what the students learn is mostly 
false; (b), they fail to grasp what they are taught on account 
of having to try to absorb half a dozen different subjects 
daily; (c), the only thing they acquire fully is a lofty notion 
of the value of a title and a corresponding idea of "irregu- 
lars;" (d), the "code of ethics," like the dogmas of religions, 
dwarf their natural capacities and they rely on their "licens- 
es" to protect them from malpractice suits. Our students 
are started on Nature's physical laws. No matter how 
much "education" one has when he comes to us, we have 

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never found, in the quarter of a century we have been 
teaching, a man or woman who was sufficiently familiar 
with physical principles to be given "credits." Our students 
are kept on a single subject, under one teacher, six hours 
daily, for many consecutive days, until they comprehend 
the importance of it; then other, allied, subjects are annexed, 
quizzes are conducted, clinics are employed to demonstrate 
the physiological application of physical laws. One hour in 
our school is worth considerable more than one hour in the 
old schools, but 100 hours in our school are worth 1,000 
hours in the old schools, for the reason that Consecutiveness 
and Thoroughness are the rule with us. 

3. Old schools, members of the "American Association 
of Medical Colleges" (the Trust), require Four Years of 
High School work; Two Years of Preliminary College 
work; three years of latin; Four Years of Medical School 
work; a total of thirteen years to qualify for what? Answer: 
To practice a system which statistics, prepared by the 
Medical Trust Journal, show yields an average of $700 a 
3^ear for each doctor. We require a Good Common School 
Education or its equivalent gained in business; Three 
Months of Hard Work (1,000 hours) in the study of Physical 
Optics, Ophthalmology, Practical Mathematics and Clinical 
Practice, which gives each student a System of Practice 
with which he or she can do work the thirteen-year gradu- 
ates of the old schools cannot touch, and which has yielded 
the graduates from the Department of Ophthalmology 
average incomes five times greater than the old-school 
average. After completing this course, Six Months more 
in the Department of Neurology (2,000 hours) gives them 
a thorough, practical knowledge of A System of Mature 
Medicine, in the practice of which the average income is 
$10,000 a year. After practicing at least fifteen months 
such graduates may enter any fall for the final course of 
nine months (3,000 hours), and upon making their grades 
as required will receive the degree M. D. The particular 

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value of this course is in the review of our regular work and 
the better knowledge of its superiority over old-school 
methods by reason of having that work explained in detail 
and its weakness shown. 

4. Old schools teach the causes of "disease" are "specific 
bacilli." We teach and prove human ills are disorders 
developed by non-conformity to Natural laws, that similar 
causes may produce like or unlike effects in different people ; 
that unlike causes may develop alike in different people; 
that "bacilli" are products of disorders, not the causes there- 
of, except that of course they may be distributed by culture, 
unintentionally or deliberately — witness the horrors of 
Vaccination. 

5. Old schools (particularly the dominant, dogmatic, 
intolerant, political one, that is being worst hurt by the 
"cult," hence squeals the loudest and uses "jack-pot" 
methods to secure monopolistic "laws") teach the inocula- 
tion (grafting) of well people to prevent "disease," and 
inoculation of the sick to "cure" them. They haven't 
mother-wit enough to realize they discredit themselves 
among all logical thinkers: (a), they admit it is unsafe to 
vaccinate a person who exhibits a blood disorder already; 
(b), they want "laws" to compel people who do not believe 
their freak notions about the "protection" of vaccination 
to submit to inoculation anyhow, when, if they really 
believed their own story, they would advertise vaccination 
for those who are fools enough to risk it and let the rest 
risk smallpox if they prefer to, because, if they are correct 
the vaccinated would be immune; (c), they demand pest 
houses and isolation for "contagious diseases," when if 
vaccination protects there is no need for them; (d), when 
the State Boards of Minnesota and Washington, angered 
at the public clamor against vaccination, ceased quaran- 
tining and permitted smallpox cases to run at large, they 
committed a crime, according to their pretended beliefs — 
but, lo the "disease" did not spread and the people were 

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vindicated. The Supreme Court of Illinois has upheld our 
contenton that "a healthy person is not a menace to 
society," and other courts have done the same. 

6. Old schools teach that swatting the mosquitoes in 
Havana stopped the Yellow Fever. Every layman of intel- 
ligence knows that is a bare-face lie. General Wood, as 
commander of the Island of Cuba, put in a sewer system, 
thus removing the cause of both Yellow-Jack and the 
mosquito. In Rio Janeiro, Brazil, and other South Ameri- 
can cities the same sanitary measures ended the plague. 

7. Old schools teach an artificial Materia-Medica. We 
teach a Natural one, the Chemistry of Food and of the 
Bodies that use it. We teach a Natural Physiological 
Chemistry, with a normal standard in each department of 
the body, for the measurement of departures therefrom. 
It is an infinitely greater subject than the old schools' 
mysterious hobby and is as certain in practice as mathe- 
matics. 

8. Old schools, recognizing the weakness of the social 
code and the opportunities afforded by the "venereal 
diseases" developed under it, teach "remedies" which do 
not remedy. They teach nothing of the anatomy, physio- 
logy, pathology and metaphysics of Sex Disorders. We 
teach our students that every organic function of the body 
should be studied in detail, from the mentality to the sex 
department, and this is the only school in which all of the 
subjects are covered, together with their relations to each 
other, showing the necessity of each to all the rest. It is all 
wonderfully interesting and we have found nothing "ob- 
scene" or "indecent" about any branch, save what we hear 
from "purists" and "moralists" whose mentalities are so 
nasty they stink. 

9. Old schools teach creeds which are absurd. They 

teach their students that they alone have "scientific" 

systems, and they succeed in pulling enough wool over the 

eyes of the majority so that they never even ask for one 

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physical or physiological reason for the administration of 
drugs. They would, probably, be dismissed for insub- 
ordination. They are taught it is "heresy" to doubt the 
words of "savants." Indeed their "code of ethics," chapter 
2, section 2, commands "a due respect for those seniors who, 
by their labors, have contributed to its (medicines) advance- 
ment." We teach that each individual is endowed with 
brains and is in duty bound to use them; that no one has 
any right to assume to do their thinking for them; that the 
greater the alleged "authority" the more he needs watching; 
that when they go out into practice they must know why 
they do what they do or they cannot be honest or successful. 

10. Old schools entail an expense of $750 for tuition, 
with extras. They require the loss of Thirteen Years time 
from earning capacity, with the addition of the expense of 
living during that period. Our tuition fee for the full course 
in Ophthalmology and Neurology is $500; the loss of time 
is Nine Months; the expense of living is for only that period ; 
the earning capacity is increased many times. Then we 
have the means of securing practices for our graduates at 
once so that they have no siege of "watchful waiting" for 
something to turn up. 

11. Old schools ridicule and abuse all other sects, first, 
because they are so hide-bound they cannot see they are 
exposing their ignorance of possibilities; second, because 
they are incensed at the competition, which in this country 
ought to be and shall be unrestricted. Our school recognizes 
the modicum of good in all of the alleged systems of practice 
— even "Christian Science" teaches disordered people to 
keep their troubles to themselves. Of course we show why 
the one-idea schools cannot be complete successes, but we 
accord to them the right to compete with us — if they can. 

12. Old schools teach that "diseases" lurk in divers 
places and "attack" the unwary. They classify alleged 
symptoms and name them as "diseases": "Erysipelas," 
"Pneumonia," "Typhoid," "Tuberculosis," etc., invoking 

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the aid of Fear by calling the latter the "Great White 
Plague," and by warnings to "vaccinate," "boil the water," 
"swat the fly," and a lot of other commercialisms. We 
teach that clean bodies and clean minds, with a reasonable 
observance of simple, Natural laws, are all that is necessary 
to be healthy and happy. 

13. The old schools profess great requirements for 
admission — then they accept any person who applies with 
the tuition fees. Their notorious "credits" have made it 
hard for people to believe we mean exactly what we say 
about our requirements; many appear to think we must be 
frauds because the old schools are and we frequently have 
applications for reductions of time. We regard all such 
propositions as proposals to be parties to frauds and we 
turn them down cold. We have condensed the work into 
the shortest possible time and we cannot and will not at- 
tempt to make it shorter. It requires most faithful, diligent 
work to absorb a good working knowledge in the courses as 
they are scheduled. None have any time for Greek letter 
societies or other "horse-play." 

14. Old schools "code of ethics" teaches that doctors 
"should maintain an air of peculiar reserve toward the 
public." We teach our students they must know their pro- 
fession so well they need employ no such means to conceal 
ignorance; that it is their duty to teach patients how they 
got into trouble and how to avoid it in future. 

15. Old schools teach it is "ethics" for the young doctor 
to wait for luck to bring him a practice. We teach business 
methods, how to get a practice ; how to prove worthy of good 
fees; how to get them and how to impress each patient that 
responsibility for health rests largely upon him or her; that 
Nature's laws are immutable; that there are limits to the 
workings of laws physically; that there are limits of physical 
and physiological endurance, mental endurance, and what 
those limits are with reference to each case. 

. 16. Old schools teach that "medicine" is a peculiar 

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thing, having no relation to any other thing — that a doctor 
may isolate a "contagious" case, yet see it daily and mix 
freely with others without danger of infection. We teach 
that Neurology is a profession, a trade, a business, a religion; 
that Neurologists must deal with people of all classes and 
conditions, hence must be an all-around man or woman, 
above all, a Nurse; but each, as a citizen, should take 
interest in politics and affairs generally, must read history, 
poetry, study everything that has or may have the slight- 
est influence on the human mind or body. 

The Four Grand Divisions of A System of Mature 
Medicine are: 1. Mental Therapy. 2. Chemical Therapy. 
3. Manual Therapy. 4. Hydro-Therapy. 

Do not confuse our Mental Therapy with "Christian 
Science," "Magnetic Healing," "Suggestion," or other 
Buffoonery. We have a contempt for the perpetrators of 
such fads and a wholesome pity for their victims. We do 
not want them either as patients or as students. We prac- 
tice mathematically, have no mysteries, no secrets, no 
bunkoism. We appeal to the intelligence of people in 
proportion to what they possess; we show what Nature 
demands of them, after we have made analyses of cases, 
and place much of the responsibility upon them. We know 
what the laws will do if given opportunity, and they must 
supply the opportunity, after we have done our part. The 
obvious reason we cannot guarantee results is because we 
are not in control of the patients as they are of themselves. 
It would be very easy for one of them to swindle us under 
such conditions, and when one has the impertinence to 
demand a guarantee from us we have good reason to believe 
he would beat us if he could. When one suspects us without 
cause we respond for cause. There is every reason why we 
will always do all we can for patients: We want to win all 
the time; and we do when instructions are followed. We do 
not take a case if we find by analysis it is hopeless. 

Chemical Therapy with us comprises a working knowl- 

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edge of Body and Food Chemistry. This is a much more 
complicated subject than the old-school Materia-Medica ; 
it involves Practical Physiological Chemistry. The two 
following illustrations will give a small idea of what we 
have accomplished, while our Diet Chart shows a con- 
densation of many years' work into a very small space 
which would take a large volume to describe in detail : 

It has been "discovered" recently, by Medical Trust 
doctors, that the Sodium Salts are better than the Potas- 
sium Salts they have been using so long. The reason they 
made the "discovery" is that they have been depending on 
Germany to supply their needs and the Huns couldn't 
deliver the goods on account of the war. The "discovery" 
is one we made long ago and have taught in our school for 
years. We are not dependent on any foreigner or on any 
chemist or chemical concern. The first three items follow- 
ing show abundance of the basic elements, Potassium and 
Magnesium, in foods; the second three items show how we 
change the bases to Sodium and Calcium at will. From the 
editorial in the Trust Journal we infer they do not know 
that Potassium and Sodium are interchangeable as bases 
and that Calcium and Magnesium are the same : Quantity, 
one ounce of each : 

K. Na Ca. Mg. 

Beef.- 1.665 .146 .113 .128 Grs. 

Corn 1.022 .003 .006 .532 Grs. 

Wheat 567 .038 .057 .213 Grs. 

Total..._ 3.254 .187 .176 .873 Grs. 

Strawberry 2.963 4.002 1.994 Grs. 

Egg 521 .793 .378 .039 Grs. 

Fowl 734 1.119 .534 .055 Grs. 

Total..._ 4.218 5.914 2.906 .094 Grs. 

Another discovery we made long ago is that the "com- 

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bustion" of the Carbohydrates and the generation of "heat 
and energy" therefrom is all bosh. We prove that Nervous 
Energy is developed in an entirely different manner and 
that the Carbonates are a four-time load on the real pro- 
ducing apparatus. First, they require energy to digest 
them; second, they constitute a load to carry when they are 
assimilated and form fat; third, they return absolutely 
nothing valuable as building material or energy; fourth, 
they are absorbers of heat and energy. After that they are 
trouble makers and exhibit in people as "acidity of the 
stomach," "boils," "erysipelas," etc. 

We have a lot of other information for those who want 
to know something of Natural Physiological and Physical 
Chemistry. We are not wedded to Theories or Idols. We 
are in search of Truths that will bear the strictest tests in 
practice. The old schools have always fought for the Infal- 
libility of Drugs, the practice of which has made their 
claims absolutely ludicrous. 

Our Manual Therapy comprises Physical Culture (not of 
the fad type), Massage, Adjustments of displaced or partly 
displaced joints, Mechanical Work-Outs of a great variety, 
the Fitting of Glasses to the Eyes, and other features 
essential to normal physiology. It is a principle with us 
that all parts of the body mechanism should work in har- 
mony and that if one part is out of action it affects all of the 
others; that if one part is overworked it is liable to hyper- 
trophy and if it is not worked enough it is subject to atrophy. 
This branch of our work is no more "osteopathy" than the 
mental branch is like "Faith Healing." Both are equally 
superior. 

Our Hydro-Therapy is as different from the old "water 
cures" as our Dietetics is from old-school drugs. Alone it 
would be of little value, except for cleanliness and in cases 
of fever; but in combination with the rest of our armamen- 
tarium it is a most valuable factor. The old- school idea of 
cold baths for fevers is a testimonial of the rankest ignorance 

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of fundamental principles. The general public and the 
Doctors often act upon the presumption that there is noth- 
ing to learn about such things as baths, dietetics, and many- 
other things, of which they have heard all of their lives. 
They do take off their hats to the mysteries of drug medicine 
and religion, the practitioners of which do not know why 
they believe what they think they do. 

We developed the values of the active and basic elements 
and had been teaching our students about them for many 
years, when, a few years ago, the Journal of the American 
Medical Association attempted to credit Professor Sherman 
of Columbia University with what the editor termed a 
"remarkable disco very,' ' adding that he was just on the 
threshold of something great; but when he learned that we 
had anticipated the Professor many years and that it was an 
"irregular" discovery, they dropped the subject and have 
never«mentioned it since. 

Our Neurometric Method of analyzing conditions, 
physiological and temperamental, classifying cases in 
twelve possible groups of disorders, making automatic 
prognoses and even fixing the proper fee to be charged for 
services, is an astonisher to all who have been instructed 
in its use. . 

We explode the "blood-pressure" fad by showing first 
the necessity of the pressure to sustain life; then how our 
mode of living keeps the walls of blood vessels elastic so 
there is no danger from the old-school fetich. 

We reduce obesity without starving patients. Indeed 
we often feed them a greater quantity than they have been 
accustomed to. We have taken off as much as 71 pounds 
in one month, and the patient, who was an old-school 
physician, grew stronger daily, soon losing his fear of 
collapse, which had impended. 

We employ a diagrammatic method of dividing subjects 
for study, so that nothing is missed for want of consecutive- 
ness. Physiology is the reason for the existence of anatomy. 

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System is a product of consecutiveness. Accuracy is only 
attained by details, and these are only absorbed by students 
when they are presented in a manner which connects them 
intelligently. Our diagrams present the Duality System of 
Analysis, which we use not only theoretically but practically. 
Thus the longer one practices the better informed he is. 
Old-school graduates will testify that they found it neces- 
sary to forget much of the college theory in practice and 
learn by experience. 

We teach the clinical values of the several odors of the 
feces, the urine, the breath and the body generally. Also 
many other practical, analytical features, which have been 
neglected in the old schools. We have found that corns are 
not always caused by tight shoes, but are largely due to 
systemic conditions. That night sweats, while indicating 
nervous weakness, do not mean "consumption. " That the 
"hectic flush" and afternoon fevers are not nearly always 
signs of "tuberculosis.' ' We have not found it necessary 
to practice frightening patients nor do we permit ourselves 
to get alarmed. A good doctor must be a good nurse; and a 
good nurse talks little but does things tactfully, thus reas- 
suring patients. 

Our graduates are taught to treat all other practitioners 
with just as much respect as they deserve. We often have 
patients who, while quitting their former doctor, because 
they were not helped by him, still have a high regard for 
him as a man; hence, as a matter of policy as well as ethics, 
we avoid criticism, other than to say that the doctor is 
probably all right, but his system is faulty. It should be 
remembered that the old-school policy of calling all others 
"quacks" has never done them any good, but has rather 
raised a doubt as to their own integrity. The public recalls 
that the pickpocket always cries "stop thief" and points at 
others to attract attention from himself. The General 
Manager of the American Medical Association (Medical 
Trust), and editor of the Journal, George Simmons, has 

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been proved to be an ex-Homeopathic, Advertising Quack 
and Abortionist, of Lincoln, Nebraska. J. N. McCormack, 
of Bowling Green, Ky., late Walking Delegate of the Trust, 
was pardoned by Governor Beckham, of Kentucky, some 
years ago for a crime against the laws of the state, before 
he had been convicted of it. Some confession, was it not? 
Yet both of these men are the biggest howlers about the 
"Quacks." You will never hear of one of our graduates 
committing the crime of abortion. It is always the "regular" 
fellows. And the worst of it is that the alleged "laws" of 
all states protect them to a great extent. Where one 
abortionist is convicted a thousand remain at large. Old- 
school persecution of others has resulted in more class- 
legislation which protects "osteopaths," "chiropractors," 
"optometrists," "nurses," "pharmacists/' "barbers," 
"horse-shoers," and permits them to persecute their com- 
petitors. We have always fought such laws on principle. 
Some courts have stultified themselves by upholding them. 
Others have made themselves ridiculous by the reasons 
given for declaring them void. We insist merit should win; 
that the people are the court of last resort; that they have 
an inalienable right to select their own doctor as well as 
their own religious belief. Legislators and courts have 
catered to "Christian Science" and other cults — because 
they are political powers. We believe in Education and 
in Medical Freedom. It is Natural and is bound to win io 
the long run. 

There are no drug fiends among our graduates, nor 
among their patients. 



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OUR COURSE IN TRUE OPHTHALMOLOGY. 

Ophthalmology, as we teach it, is as different from that 
taught in all other schools as could be imagined. If the 
Optical Schools are such, our course is one in general 
practice. Our graduates from this department do work no 
oculist, optometrist, or even general medical practitioners 
can do. It is Neurological Ophthalmology. Oculists are 
merely physicians who have elected to practice a specialty 
for business reasons. They had no more training than 
others in the general course of their school; they have 
taken some special work — often only a week or two, and 
their "license" does the rest. They have absolutely no 
knowledge of physical optics, which is one of the most 
important of all branches of study. They treat as "diseas- 
es" of the eyes what we and our graduates know are pro- 
ducts of nerve strain through defective dioptric systems. 
They say eyes are good if vision is normal, when, as a 
matter of fact, thousands of very bad eyes have perfect 
vision; indeed too good vision is a sure indication of at 
least one unit of Hypermetropia (an under-developed eye) 
and possibly as much as two or three units. If their patients 
have indigestion, female troubles, eruptions on the body, 
"rheumatism," etc., they send them to a general practi- 
tioner. Our Ophthalmologists are qualified to remove the 
causes of many of these Symptoms (not "diseases") and 
their clients get well Naturally. 

Instead of 48 to 60 hours, advertised in the old-school 
catalogues as the time devoted to Ophthalmology in their 
Four- Years' course, we devote 1,000 hours to the work and 
do it in Three Months. More than half of this time is 
personal work by ourselves with the students; the balance 
is in special work by them, laid out by us. No student has 
anjr time for anything else but sleeping, eating and a reason- 
able amount of exercise. Our pupils are all enthusiastic — 
after jthey get over the first few days' work, which rather 

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appalls them, because it comes so fast; but when they find 
it is all as sure as bookkeeping they love the work. 

This Department is the Primary or Foundation course, 
which all candidates must take before they are eligible 
to the other courses. There are several advantages in this 
to the students: First, they get a real profession in the 
least time and at a cost far below what would be involved 
in any other line of work. We have taken many a ten- 
dollar-a-week person and made a fifty-to-one-hundred- 
dollar-a-week doctor. Second, if it is intended to take 
the full Neurological course the Ophthalmological graduate 
can go out and earn the money to pay for the balance of 
the work. Third, if any are found whom we do not regard 
as having the necessary qualifications to become good 
Neurologists we advise them to not go into that work unless 
they expect to get information for personal benefit. We 
hold it is worth to any person all of the time and money 
it costs to take the full course, even if they never expect 
to practice a minute — they learn how to get well if sick 
and how to keep well when they are well. Fourth, in this 
Department students get a training in Anatomy and 
Physiology of the Nervous and Organic Systems; many 
come with minor, chronic ills, "catarrh, " "indigestion/ ' 
"constipation/ ' "dysmenorrhea," "amenorrhoea," "head- 
ache," "heart disease," "hay fever," etc., and have the 
causes removed while they take the course, without extra 
charge, thus they get their moneys' worth and the course 
beside. 

Schedule. 

1. Fundamental Physics, Chemical and Mechanical. 

2. The laws of Light, Heat, Force, Attraction, Etc. 

3. Refraction by all forms of Transparent Substances. 

4. Prisms: Angles of Construction and Deviation, Etc. 

5. Lens Construction: All forms and Their Respective 

Values. 

6. Optical Centers, Nodal Points, Principal Factors, Etc. 

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7. Technical Drawing by and Without Mathematical 

Calculations. 

8. Reflection from all sorts of Surfaces, particularly 

Mirrors. 

9. Writing, Transposing and Analyzing Prescriptions 

for Lenses. 

10. Physical Construction of Ideally Normal and Defec- 

tive Eyes. 

11. Anatomy and Physiology of the General Nervous 

System. 

12. Anatomy and Physiology of the Eyes and Their 

Appendages. 

13. Measuring Errors of Refraction in the Eyes System- 

atically. 

14. Measuring the Nerve Supph' of the Body Through 

the Eyes. 

15. Finding General Systemic Conditions by Dynamic 

and Static Tests. 

16. Measuring the Blood Suppty with the Ophthalmoscope. 

17. Why Nerve Strain through the Eyes is the Primary 

Cause of Ills. 

18. Why Fitting Glasses Properly Requires Highest 

Surgical Skill. 

19. Why "Oculists" and "Optometrists" make so many 

Failures. 

20. Alleged Eye "Diseases," Their Causes and How to 

Remove Them. 

21. The Fallacy of "Muscle Trouble" and Use of Prisms. 

22. How to Straighten Cross Eyes Without Operation or 

Danger. 

23. Why Eye Operations are Mostly Willful or Criminal 

Malpractice. 

24. Expose of Retinascopy and Other Fads, with Positive 

Proofs. 

25. General Disorders, Digestive and Otherwise. How to 

Fix Them. 

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26. Elementary and Abstractive Dietetics. 

27. Physiognomy, Symptomatology, Mental Influences, 

Etc. 

28. Objective and Subjective Procedures Demonstrated 

Clinically. 

29. Comparisons of Text-Book Methods with Ours, 

Clinically. 

30. The Neurometric Method of Analysis, Supplanting 

"Diagnosis." 

31. Case-Taking, Fee-Fixing, Ethics of Advertising, Busi- 

ness. 

32. Legal Rights and Limitations of Ophthalmologists. 
The classes work in the school rooms six hours daily, 

except Sunday, with individual tasks each evening. This is 
necessary in order to be able to cover the course with the 
entire class in the course of Three Months. No other school 
gives anything like our work and any pretenses that they 
do are false. 

Students must make grades of at least 80 per cent, in 
each subject to graduate, and to be eligible to the Neuro- 
logical course they must have grades of 100 in Physical 
Optics. As this is straight mathematics it can be done if 
they work. 



Requirements for Admission: White persons of Good 
Character, at least a good Common School education, 
Honesty of Purpose, Willingness to Work Hard, Con- 
formity to the Rules of the Institution. 

Tuition Fee: Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, Payable 
in Advance. 

Degree Conferred : Doctor of Ophthalmology. 



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DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY. 

Only graduates from our Department of Ophthalmology 
with physical grades of 100 per cent, and having shown 
capacity for the work, are admitted. The course opens 
early in January each year, and continues six months. 
Dates on application. 

In the old schools Neurology means a branch of the 
work, just as Biology, Histology, etc., are branches. With 
us the word covers everything necessary to constitute "A 
System of Mature Medicine." We instruct our students 
in all the branches covered by the old schools and in ad- 
dition we have a great deal of work which is absolutely 
unknown to them. The reason for this is that while they 
have stuck to the orthodox creeds and "time honored" 
errors, we have profited by their failures and have made 
such great progress they can never hope to catch up with us. 

With our Consecutive, Continuous Method of Teaching 
we are able to cover subjects rapidly and comprehensively, 
because they are intertwined like the story of "The House 
that Jack Built." The old schools have about six lectures 
a day, on as many subjects, by six different people. We 
have six hours daily by one teacher, on one subject, four 
days each week. The other two days are devoted to indi- 
vidual work and instruction so that our classes are kept 
even. 

The first day we open with a preliminary statement of 
what we expect to prove, just as good attorneys do in court. 
Then we begin with the skeleton : its chemical composition ; 
its development in connection with other tissues ; its forms ; 
articulations; sources of nourishment; structure; physi- 
ology; possible pathology. Six hours a day application not 
only interests but instructs instead of confusing students, 
as is the case in the old schools. Next, we add muscles and 
tell the two stories together. Next comes the nerves and 
nervous energy, three stories together. Then the cireula- 

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tion, four stories in a bunch, and so on through the entire 
list of branches. Any layman or old-school doctor ought 
to be able to see that we have the only system of instruction 
and practice, because we include everything which is ration- 
al, theoretical or practical, chemical or mechanical. We 
do not need to explain further for students, because all who 
enter this Department have already been through Ophthal- 
mology with us and have a pretty good idea of what they 
are tackling. 

For the benefit of the laity and other schools of practice 
we will say that while the so-called "regular' ' (Allopathic) 
school holds first place in the estimate of a credulous public 
by reason of being the oldest and closest allied with "reli- 
gion," having been an outgrowth of that mysterious cult, 
it is a purely one-idea system of "cure," which humbug is 
only excelled by the "forgiveness of sins" scheme of the 
"Christians." It believes in the efficacy of drugs. So do 
the Homeopaths, the Eclectics, the Physio-Medicalists. 
The "Christian" bible says: "A house divided against itself 
shall fall." The church divided and it has been falling ever 
since. Drug medicine is going the same route, despite the 
most strenuous efforts of the Medical Trust and gullible 
legislators, venal courts, etc. Look at the new "systems" 
which have arisen from time to time and flourished to some 
extent. They failed and will continue to fail because they 
are all imitators of the Allopathic school, even to the use 
of their textbooks and imitations thereof. Punching backs 
alone is no system of practice. Baths alone may do good 
or harm. Massage is good for some things, but it isn't a 
system. 

Neurology is different. It is "a system of mature 
medicine." It comprises Chemistry as it is practiced by 
Nature. It involves the study of not only Body Compo- 
sition and Metabolism, but of the sources of Chemical Sup- 
plies, which are to be found in foods alone in such combina- 
tions they are assimilable. It includes Mechanics so tha^ 

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practitioners may know how to render aid in cases of ac- 
cident. It is really the oldest and only S3 r stem of practice, 
because everything taught and practiced is according to 
Natural Laws, which are as old as Nature. We employ 
artificial legs and other rational substitutes, whenever and 
wherever required to assist Nature, but we never attempt 
to supplant her in any particular. To be more specific we 
enumerate : 

1. We have ideally normal standards, anatomical and 
physiological. 

2. We have positive means of finding departures from 
normal. 

3. We have tests for determining the causes of derange- 
ments. 

4. We know these causes have different effects in 
different people, hence there could be no rational name or 
treatment that would fit all cases of similar symptoms. 

5. We have to examine and analyze conditions in each 
case. 

6. The analysis discovers the causes and automatically 
tells what must be done by ourselves and the patient. 

7. As the possible causes are limited to Mental and 
Physical and consist solely of nervous shock or strain, we 
have Chemistry and Mechanics to tell us what is wrong 
and how to act. 

8. We know the laws of Sensation and Motion, Heat 
and Cold, with their subdivisions and auxiliaries. 

9. Our mental therapy is mathematical instead of 
mysterious. We do not care a hoot whether a patient 
believes in our system. It is merely a matter of obedience 
to instructions, always reasonable and practicable. 

10. Our Materia-Medica is the Composition of Foods 
and their Physiological Action combined with Body Con- 
ditions as found by Analysis and supported by experience 
in practice with most uniform success. 

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11. The employment of water, internally and externally, 
is the first auxiliary to our materia-medica. 

12. The correction of eye defects is of importance 
because the eyes are the gauges we measure the nerve and 
blood supplies correctly with and the glasses stop an enor- 
mous drain on the nerve supply at once. We measure it as 
absolutely as electricity is measured by meters. 

13. Our manual practice, in combination with the other 
features, enables us to do away with surgery, except in very 
rare instances and in cases of accident. It includes massage 
and manipulations of various kinds, none of which can 
possibly do harm to any patient. 

14. Rest, mental and physiological,isoneoftheessentials, 
in combination with other indicated treatment, in order to 
remove the causes, thus permitting Nature to restore health. 

15. Exercises, not only of the body as a whole, but of the 
sevefal functions, are necessary to maintain physiological 
equilibrium as well as mental balance. 

16. Education of each patient to the responsibilities to 
Nature of each individual in order to get well and remain 
well. We have no secrets from our patients, no mystery in 
our methods, but we have such a variety of combinations 
of causes in the different cases that none should feel com- 
petent to treat others by what they learn while we are 
treating them, unless they have first gone into the study of 
Causes and Effects as we have done in order to be competent 
to treat them. 

We have no use whatever for vaccination or drugs, 
prescriptions or patent. They are the "discoveries' ' of 
hysterics who have taught mystery so long they have come 
to believe in it, despite the egregious and ridiculous failures 
of it in practice, and despite the fact that they have changed 
their creeds every decade for hundreds of years. 

Tuition Fee: Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, Payable 

in Advance. 

Degree: Doctor of Neurology. 

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DEPARTMENT OF REGULAR MEDICINE. 

After a student has completed the courses in Ophthal- 
mology and Neurology and has practiced at least fifteen 
months, after graduating in Neurology, he or she is eligible 
to re-enter the school, about the last of September of any 
year, and add nine months' work, when, upon making 
satisfactory grades and being otherwise worthy, the degree, 
Doctor of Medicine, will be conferred. This is not to be 
taken in any sense as a concession that there is any merit 
in the degree over those of Doctor of Ophthalmology and 
Doctor of Neurology. It is merely evidence to the public 
that the holder has earned all the honors there are to be 
received in preparation for practice and is therefore better 
qualified than if he had devoted all of his time to one creed. 
No Neurologist would ever practice Drug Medicine if he 
had degrees from all the colleges in the world, because all 
want success and they have the means to that end in Neur- 
ology, "A System of Mature Medicine." Of course it is 
worth the time and money cost to know what the others 
are doing, but the chief value of this course is the review 
of our own work, after having practiced during the period 
required for admission. 

No four-year or seven-year course in the old schools 
ever equaled this. 

Tuition Fee: Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars paya- 
ble in advance. 



Our plan of education is not only better in theory and 
practice than that of the orthodox schools, but it puts a 
profession within reach for those of limited means and 
unlimited ambition. 



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POST-GRADUATE COURSE FOR PHYSICIANS. 

We have always been and are today the best friends of 
the old-school practitioners. We have always fought for 
medical freedom for them, that they might migrate from 
one state to another without losing their rights as prac- 
titioners. We have always served a post-graduate course 
for their improvement and many have availed themselves 
of it. Almost invariably they at once abandoned old 
methods and adopted ours because they saw better results 
for patients and better remuneration for themselves. 
Many of them parted with bad cases of "Asthma," Heart 
weakness, "Rheumatism/ ' Gall-stones, Blood pressure, 
Bladder troubles, Obesity, Indigestion, etc., while taking 
the course. They learned how needless is death from 
"Pneumonia.' ' They found a way to handle Inflammatory 
Rheumatism. How to anticipate and prevent Cerebral 
hemorrhage. How to handle "Epileptic" cases success- 
fully. How to treat the "Grippe" so there will be no after- 
math. They found the greatest system of Gynecological 
practice they ever dreamed of. They learned something 
about Appendicitis that made them laugh and made them 
enthuse when they tackled a few cases and won. They 
learned how to handle cases they had regarded as Incurable. 
They learned how to Analyze instead of Diagnose cases. 
They learned how to fit glasses and measure the nerve 
supplies and blood quality and quantity of patients and 
ascertain exact conditions with reference to the High, 
Safety, Danger and Low Lines of each. At first they 
marveled when we measured them and told them their ages ; 
then they waded in and learned how to do such things them- 
selves. They all are our enthusiastic friends. They all 
say they never worked so hard in their lives; but they never 
got so much for so little work after all. 

Time Required : Four Months. 

Tuition Fee : Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, Payable 
in advance. Degree : Doctor of Neurology. 

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SEX ILLS AND NATURAL LAWS. 

McCormick Medical College is the only school in the 
world that takes the subject of Sex Ills, Mental and Physio- 
logical, and goes to the bottom of it. The old schools only 
teach "Venereal Diseases" and "Gynecology," the first of 
which remains a puzzle among them and the second is so 
radically wrong that our Ophthalmological graduates are 
able to do so much more for patients than the old practi- 
tioners can that there is no room for comparisons. 

We have been proving for many years that the Causes 
of many Disorders, Mental and Physiological, of both sexes, 
are from ignorance of matters pertaining to sexes and their 
relations. It is an appalling truth that religious bodies, 
while pretending "reverence for the Creator and His works" 
give the lie to their professions by teaching that a portion 
of His work is an unfit subject for investigation, "indecent" 
to exhibit and "obscene" to write about. Preachers thunder 
"morality" from their pulpits and practice "immorality" 
in their homes under the thin disguise, marriage. Political 
doctors, who are unable to make their livings in practice, 
seek "laws" compelling "Medical Marriages," because 
they hope for appointments as "inspectors." 

Nature has no "morals." Her laws work for good if 
conformed to and for harm if they are ignored, willfully or 
ignorantly. 

We teach Natural Laws as they have been revealed to 
us by mathematical study and over a quarter of a century 
of practice. We prove what we teach, by mathematics 
and by the people who suffered distress and have been 
relieved by following our instructions — and they are perma- 
nently "cured," not by us, but by Nature. Any doctor 
who claims to cure anything is a humbug — the greatest 
of all "bugs." 

We teach the Sex subject as we do the Brain, the Stomach 
the Intestines, or any other part of Anatomy or Physiology. 
There is nothing lewd or lascivious about any of them, 

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except as weak mentalities see them after "moral" train- 
ing. We teach and prove that Physiological Disappoint- 
ment in copulation is bad for both sexes, and why. We 
teach that ignorant indulgence leads to abuses or ab- 
stinence, that both are bad, and why. We teach and 
prove that early experience, under rational instruction, is 
absolutely essential to development of both minds and 
bodies. We teach and prove that when it is neglected 
until after maturity of other organs, say after the thirtieth 
year, the individual is permanently defective. We teach 
that a child has the right to be well born and we teach how 
to accomplish that feat. We teach the humbuggery and 
outrageousness of the doctrine that a wife is her husband's 
property and must submit herself to his passions on demand. 
We teach that marriage, as a "hymenial" proposition, is 
degrading, and prove it by millions of cases of infelicity. 
We teach truths the young should be taught in the public 
schools; we teach those of mature years what is absolutely 
necessary to health and happiness. We teach nothing that 
is not clean and wholesome. What we teach on this subject 
alone is worth all the entire course costs in time and money. 
No other school even pretends to teach it. 



We accept none but high-class stu- 
dents. Those who are merely diploma 
hunters can't get them here. Our 
courses require work, work and more 
work. It is no place for lazy people or 
fakers. 



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OFFICIAL OLD-SCHOOL SCHEDULE. 

Histology 90 

Embryology 90' 

Osteology 30 

Anatomy 520 

Physiology 300 

Chemistry and Toxicology 300 

Materia Medica 60 

Pharmacology . 60 

Therapeutics 90 

Bacteriology 140 

Pathology 240 

Medical Zoology, Post Mortem and Clinical Microscopy 90 

Physical Diagnosis 100 

Practice of Medicine 540 

Surgery 540 

Obstetrics 160 

Gynecology... > 160 

Pediatrics 100 

Eye and Ear 60 

Nose and Throat 60 

Mental and Nervous Disease 120 

Electro-Therapeutics 60 

Genito-Urinary Disease 60 

Dermatology and Syphilis 50 

Hygiene, Climatology and Public Health 30 

Dietetics 30 

Medical Jurisprudence 30 

Hydrotherapy 

Specific Diagnosis and Medication 

Four years' total 4110 

These subjects are taught in the old-schools in such a 
manner the students hear from two to six different lectures 
on as many subjects each day. 

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In McCormick Medical College one teacher works six 
hours a day on a single subject. He gives it to students by 
talks — we do not lecture — by drawings, by clinics and 
dictates notes on the most important features of each sub- 
ject. 

In the old-schools where they boast a host of "profes- 
sors" about 97 per cent, of them are doctors in practice who 
appear once a week or once a month and few of them know 
their subjects well enough to talk without preparation. 

In McCormick Medical College our teachers all devote 
their entire time to the school work. They know it so well 
they are ready for business at any hour, day or night. 

Old fogyism must go in medicine as well as in everything 
else. 

In McCormick Medical College, students who want not 
only Ophthalmology and A System of Mature Medicine in 
its entirety, but also the details of old-school work, put in a 
minimum of 4320 hours of school work and Fifteen Months 
in practice. The latter enables them to lighten expenses, 
while qualifying them more completely than any other 
school can. It is all included in four years, too. 

With reference to admission to examination by state 
boards, the courts have decided that any discrimination 
against schools of practice is absolutely unconstitutional. 
Any trickery by members of boards is punishable under the 
statutes covering misconduct in office, and ranges from 
$10,000 fine to fine and imprisonment. 



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We Take Patients 

In connection with the college we 

have facilities for a limited number 

of patients. Our 

SYSTEM OF MATURE 
MEDICINE 

works on cases that have been pro- 
nounced "incurable" by old-school 
practitioners. We make a specialty of 

"CHRONIC" FEMALE DISORDERS 
RHEUMATISM AND ECZEMA 
EPILEPSY AND INDIGESTION 
"HEART DISEASE" AND OBESITY 
"PERNICIOUS" ANAEMIA 

GENERAL NERVOUS DEBILITY 



We take no cases without first making 
a through personal examination and anal- 
ysis. If we find conditions warrant the 
assumption of success we take them. 
Otherwise we tell the truth and pass 
the case. All fees payable in advance. 

EXAMINATION FEE $25 IN ADVANCE 



Mccormick medical college 



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Books That Will Tell 

Things You Want 

to Know 

r ~PHE books published by the 
*■" McCormick Medical Col- 
lege in years passed and to 
come will always be found to 
contain practical as well as theo- 
retical information. Our works 
are not to be found in second- 
hand book stores, because care- 
less and unsuccessful people 
do not buy them. Others, who 
do buy them, use them, and 
being successful, have no occa- 
sion to pawn them. 

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